Bajelani dialect
| Bajelani | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Iraq |
Native speakers | unknown (20,000 cited 1976)[1] |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 |
bjm |
| Glottolog |
baje1238[2] |
Bajelani is a dialect of the Indo-Iranian language Gorani spoken by the Bajelans and ethnic Kurds in Iraq. It is close to Shabaki, Hawrami and Sarli. Many speakers have been displaced since the 1980s.
References
- ↑ Bajelani at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Bajelani". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
External links
- http://www.bajalan.com (NOTE: mostly in Arabic)
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