Zaza language

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
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  (1998)e18
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)
Linguasphere	58-AAA-ba

Zaza Language Media

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    Northern Zazaki*  Central Zazaki*  Southern Zazaki

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  Zaza text in Arabic letters, written in 1891 and printed in 1899.

Other websites

• Zaza-Gorani | Ethnologue Ethnologue on Zazaki (language)
• [1] Archived 2009-10-25 at the Wayback Machine (Weblinks of Zaza people)
• Zazaki.de zazaki dimili zaza Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine Academic Research Center of Zazaki
• [2] Archived 2016-01-13 at the Wayback Machine Only Zazaki news
• [3] Archived 2012-11-11 at the Wayback Machine Zazaki Institute