Shabaki

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Shabaki is an Indo-Iranian language spoken primarily by the Shabak ethnic minority in northern Iraq.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Indo-Iranian language
Northwestern Iranian language
language
closelyRelatedTo Gorani NERFINISHED
Hawrami NERFINISHED
Zaza NERFINISHED
coexistsWith Arabic NERFINISHED
Kurdish
country Iraq
endangeredStatus vulnerable
hasAlternativeName Shabak language NERFINISHED
Shabaki language NERFINISHED
hasDialectContinuumWith other Northwestern Iranian varieties
hasEthnicGroup Shabak NERFINISHED
hasLexicalBorrowingFrom Arabic
Kurdish NERFINISHED
Persian NERFINISHED
hasMorphologicalType fusional
hasNumberOfSpeakersEstimate tens of thousands
hasPhonologicalInfluenceFrom Arabic NERFINISHED
hasReligionContext Shia Islam NERFINISHED
Yarsanism NERFINISHED
hasSociolinguisticSituation bilingualism with Arabic
bilingualism with Kurdish
hasWordOrder SOV
isMinorityLanguageOf Iraq NERFINISHED
ISO639-3Code sdb
languageFamily Indo-European language family
surface form: Indo-European

Indo-Iranian NERFINISHED
linguisticClassification Western Iranian NERFINISHED
minorityLanguageIn Iraq NERFINISHED
primaryArea villages east of Mosul
region Mosul area NERFINISHED
Nineveh Governorate NERFINISHED
script Arabic script
spokenBy Shabak ethnic minority
Shabak people NERFINISHED
spokenByMinorityGroupIn Nineveh Governorate NERFINISHED
spokenIn Iraq NERFINISHED
northern Iraq NERFINISHED
usedAs marker of Shabak identity
usedIn home domain
religious practices
writingSystem Arabic script NERFINISHED

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