Zazaki

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Zazaki is an Indo-Iranian language spoken primarily in eastern Turkey, often associated with the Zaza people and considered one of the main Kurdish-related dialects or languages.


Statements (48)
Predicate Object
instanceOf Indo-Iranian language
Iranian language
Northwestern Iranian language
language
closelyRelatedTo Gorani language
hasAlternativeName Dimlî
Kirdkî
Zaza
hasDialect Central Zazaki
Northern Zazaki
Southern Zazaki
hasEndangermentStatus vulnerable or endangered language
hasEthnicAssociation Zaza people
hasGrammaticalFeature case system
ergative alignment (partially)
postpositions
rich verbal morphology
two grammatical genders
hasMinorityLanguageStatusIn Turkey
hasPhonologicalFeature vowel harmony (partial)
hasScriptHistory Arabic script (historically)
Latin script (modern standard)
ISO639-3Code zza
isSometimesClassifiedAs Kurdish dialect
separate language from Kurdish
isSpokenNear Kurdish-speaking regions
languageFamily Indo-European
Indo-Iranian
Iranian
Northwestern Iranian
notMutuallyIntelligibleWith Kurmanji Kurdish (to a large extent)
Sorani Kurdish (to a large extent)
partOf Indo-European language family
region Bingöl Province
Diyarbakır Province
Eastern Anatolia
Elazığ Province
Erzincan Province
Sivas Province
Tunceli Province
spokenBy Zaza people
spokenIn Eastern Turkey
Turkey
subclassOf Western Iranian language
usedBy Zaza diaspora communities in Europe
usedIn local media in eastern Turkey
oral literature of Zaza people
writingSystem Latin alphabet

Referenced by (9)
Subject (surface form when different) Predicate
Kurdish language
Zazaki ("Northern Zazaki")
Zazaki ("Central Zazaki")
Zazaki ("Southern Zazaki")
hasDialect
Balochi
closelyRelatedTo
Kurdistan
hasLanguage
Iranian languages ("Zazaki language")
hasMajorLanguage
Northwestern Iranian languages ("Zazaki language")
hasMajorSubgroup
Kurds
majorDialect

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