Northern Dimlî

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Northern Dimlî is a regional variety of the Dimlî (Zaza) language spoken primarily in the northern parts of its traditional area in eastern Turkey.

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Label Occurrences
Northern Dimlî canonical 1

Statements (46)

Predicate Object
instanceOf dialect
language variety
alternativeName Kuzey Dimlî NERFINISHED
Kuzey Zazaca
Northern Zaza NERFINISHED
Northern Zazaki NERFINISHED
Zazakîya Bakur NERFINISHED
closelyRelatedTo Central Zazaki NERFINISHED
Southern Dimlî NERFINISHED
country Turkey
distinctFrom Kurmanji NERFINISHED
Sorani NERFINISHED
Turkish NERFINISHED
endangeredStatus vulnerable
hasMorphologicalFeatures ergative alignment
rich case system
hasPhonologicalFeatures vowel harmony tendencies differing from Southern Dimlî
hasSubvarieties local village varieties in northern Zaza areas
hasSyntacticFeatures predominantly SOV word order
influencedBy Kurmanji NERFINISHED
Turkish NERFINISHED
ISO639-3 zza NERFINISHED
languageFamily Indo-European language family
surface form: Indo-European languages

Indo-Iranian languages
Iranian languages
Northwestern Iranian languages NERFINISHED
lexicalSimilarityWith Central Zazaki NERFINISHED
Southern Dimlî NERFINISHED
minorityLanguageIn Turkey NERFINISHED
partOf Zaza NERFINISHED
partOfDialectContinuum Zaza dialect continuum
region northern parts of the Dimlî-speaking area
script Latin script
sharesISOCodeWith Central Zazaki NERFINISHED
Southern Dimlî NERFINISHED
spokenIn Eastern Anatolia NERFINISHED
Turkey NERFINISHED
eastern Turkey NERFINISHED
status primarily spoken language
subdivisionOf Dimlî NERFINISHED
Zaza language NERFINISHED
traditionalUse folklore
oral literature
religious poetry
usedBy Zaza people NERFINISHED
writingSystem Latin alphabet

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Dimlî hasDialect Northern Dimlî