Northern Zazaki

Zazakiyê Zımey
Native to Turkey
Region Main in Tunceli, southern parts of Erzincan and eastern parts of Sivas
Ethnicity Zaza
Native speakers
 140,000 [1] (1998)[2]
Latin script
Language codes
ISO 639-2 kiu
ISO 639-3 zza – inclusive code
Individual codes:
kiu – Kirmanjki (Northern Zazaki)
diq – Dimli (Southern Zazaki)
Glottolog zaza1246[3]
Linguasphere 58-AAA-ba

Northern Zazaki (in Zazaki: Zazakiyê Zımey, Kırmancki or Zonê Ma) is one of dialects of the Zazaki language. Northern Zazaki is predominantly spoken by over 150,000 people in the eastern provinces of Turkey such as Tunceli, Erzincan and Sivas.[4]

Vocal differences of Northern Zazaki

There are some differences among dialects of Zazaki language. Specifically the word sh being s in Northern Zazaki:

Northern ZazakiSouthern and Central ZazakiMeaning
domanqeçek, qıc, tût, leyr“kid, lad”
nas kerdeneşınasnayış, sılasnaene “know”
bazarbazar, kırê, kıri (< Armenian < Greek)“bazaar”
nia daene, sêr kerdene, qayt k.cı ra ewniyaene, cı onyayış“look”
werte (< Trk.)miyan“middle”
thalveng“vacuous”
Northern and Southern ZazakiCentral ZazakiMeaning
vuriya-enevuriya-y-ışvary
vuriya-y-ışvuriya-y-ışvariation

References

  1. ↑ "Zazaki, Northern". Ethnologue.
  2. ↑ Zazakiyê Zımey 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, Northern:: Joshua Project". joshuaproject.net.

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