Northern Zazaki
Zazakiyê Zımey | |
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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 codeIndividual 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 Zazaki | Southern and Central Zazaki | Meaning |
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doman | qeçek, qıc, tût, leyr | “kid, lad” |
nas kerdene | şınasnayış, sılasnaene | “know” |
bazar | bazar, kırê, kıri (< Armenian < Greek) | “bazaar” |
nia daene, sêr kerdene, qayt k. | cı ra ewniyaene, cı onyayış | “look” |
werte (< Trk.) | miyan | “middle” |
thal | veng | “vacuous” |
Northern and Southern Zazaki | Central Zazaki | Meaning |
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vuriya-ene | vuriya-y-ış | vary |
vuriya-y-ış | vuriya-y-ış | variation |
References
- ↑ "Zazaki, Northern". Ethnologue.
- ↑ Zazakiyê Zımey at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
Kirmanjki (Northern Zazaki) at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
Dimli (Southern Zazaki) at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) - ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Zaza". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- ↑ Joshua Project. "Language - Zazaki, Northern:: Joshua Project". joshuaproject.net.
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