Central Zazaki

Zazakiyê Merkezi
Native to Turkey
Region Elazığ, Bingöl northern parts of Diyarbakır
Ethnicity Zaza
Native speakers
1,500,000 [1] (1998)[2]
Latin script
Language codes
ISO 639-2 diq
ISO 639-3 zzainclusive code
Individual codes:
kiu  Kirmanjki (Northern Zazaki)
diq  Dimli (Southern Zazaki)
Glottolog zaza1246[3]
Linguasphere 58-AAA-ba

Central Zazaki (in Zazaki: Zazakiyê Merkezi or simply Zazaki) is one of dialects of the Zazaki language. Central Zazaki is predominantly spoken by over 1 million people in the eastern provinces of Turkey such as Elazığ, all Bingöl and northern parts of Diyarbakır province.[4][5]

References

  1. "Zazaki, Central". Ethnologue.
  2. Zazakiyê Merkezi at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
    Kirmanjki (Northern Zazaki) at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
    Dimli (Southern Zazaki) at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  3. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Zaza". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
  4. Joshua Project. "Language - Zazaki, Merkezi:: Joshua Project". joshuaproject.net.
  5. http://www.zazaki.de/turkce/makaleler/zazacauzerinenotlar.pdf

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