Shabak language

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Shabaki
Shabaki
Spoken in: Iraq 
Region: Mosul
Total speakers: About 100,000
Language family: Indo-European
 Indo-Iranian
  Iranian
   Western
    Northwestern
     Zaza-Gorani
      Shabaki
Language codes
ISO 639-1: none
ISO 639-2: ira
ISO 639-3: sdb

Shabaki is a language spoken by Shabak people in Mosul, Iraq. It is a part of the northwestern group of the Iranian section of the Indo-Iranian branch of the Indo-European family. [1]

In 1989 an estimate of speakers of Shabaki was put between 10,000 and 20,000.[1]

[edit] References

  1. ^ Ethnologue report for language code:sdb