Zaza language

Zaza
Zaza
Native to	Anatolia
Region	Main in Tunceli, Bingöl, Erzincan, Sivas, Elazığ, Erzurum, Malatya Gümüşhane Province, Şanlıurfa Province, and Varto, Adıyaman Province; diasporic in Mutki, Sarız, Aksaray, and Taraz
Ethnicity	Zaza
Native speakers	(1.6 million cited 1998)
Language family	Indo-European Indo-Iranian Iranian Western Northwestern I Zaza–Gorani Zaza; ; ; ; ; ;
Writing system	Latin script
Language codes
ISO 639-2	zza
ISO 639-3	zza – inclusive code; Individual codes:; kiu – Kirmanjki (Northern Zaza); diq – Dimli (Southern Zaza)
Glottolog	zaza1246
ELP	Dimli
Linguasphere	58-AAA-ba

Zaza language, also called Zazaki, Kirmanjki and Dimli, is an Iranian language mainly spoken in eastern Turkey by the Zazas. It belongs to the northwest-Iranian group of Iranic languages. The Zaza language is related to Sangsarī, Māzandarānī, Tātī (Herzendī), Semnānī, Tāleshī, Kurdish, Persian and Balōchi. The number of Zaza speakers is not known exactly. Many people consider the Zaza language to be a dialect of Kurdish. But it has been shown that Zaza has is more similar to other Iranic languages such as Mazandarani than to Kurdish.

↑ Zaza at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
Kirmanjki (Northern Zaza) at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
Dimli (Southern Zaza) at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)

[e18-1] Zaza at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
Kirmanjki (Northern Zaza) at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
Dimli (Southern Zaza) at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)

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