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 zza – inclusive 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. ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Zaza". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  4. ↑ Joshua Project. "Language - Zazaki, Merkezi:: Joshua Project". joshuaproject.net.
  5. ↑ http://www.zazaki.de/turkce/makaleler/zazacauzerinenotlar.pdf

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