Kirmanjki

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Kirmanjki is a Northwestern Iranian language variety, often considered a dialect of Zaza (Dimlî), spoken primarily by Kurdish communities in eastern Turkey.

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Label Occurrences
Kirmanjki canonical 1

Statements (47)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Iranian language
Northwestern Iranian language variety
Zaza–Gorani language
dialect
closelyRelatedTo Southern Zazaki NERFINISHED
distinctFrom Kurmanji NERFINISHED
Sorani NERFINISHED
Turkish NERFINISHED
endangeredStatus vulnerable
glottocode kirm1242
hasAlternativeName Kırdki NERFINISHED
Kırmancki NERFINISHED
Northern Zazaki NERFINISHED
Zazakî (Northern variety)
hasDialect Northern Kirmanjki NERFINISHED
Southern Kirmanjki NERFINISHED
hasLexicalInfluenceFrom Arabic NERFINISHED
Kurdish
Persian NERFINISHED
Turkish
hasMorphologicalFeature ergative alignment
split-ergativity
hasPhonologicalFeature vowel harmony absence
hasSyntacticFeature SOV word order
ISO639-3Code kiu
languageFamily Indo-European language family
surface form: Indo-European

Indo-Iranian
linguisticClassificationDebatedBy Iranian linguists
Kurdologists
partOf Western Zaza NERFINISHED
recognizedAsMinorityLanguageIn Turkey (de facto, limited contexts) NERFINISHED
region Bingöl Province NERFINISHED
Elazığ Province NERFINISHED
Erzincan Province NERFINISHED
Sivas Province NERFINISHED
Tunceli Province NERFINISHED
spokenBy Kurdish communities
Zaza Kurds NERFINISHED
spokenIn Turkey NERFINISHED
spokenPrimarilyIn eastern Turkey
subclassOf Dimlî NERFINISHED
Zaza language NERFINISHED
usedByReligiousCommunity Alevi Kurds NERFINISHED
usedIn folk music
oral tradition
religious poetry
writingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Dimlî hasAlternativeName Kirmanjki