Shabaki

E776566

Shabaki is an Indo-Iranian language spoken primarily by the Shabak ethnic minority in northern Iraq.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Shabaki canonical 2

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (44)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Indo-Iranian language
Northwestern Iranian language
language
closelyRelatedTo Gorani
Hawrami
Zaza
coexistsWith Arabic
Kurdish
country Iraq
endangeredStatus vulnerable
hasAlternativeName Shabak language
Shabaki language
linked to: Shabak language
hasDialectContinuumWith other Northwestern Iranian varieties
hasEthnicGroup Shabak
hasLexicalBorrowingFrom Arabic
Kurdish
linked to: Kurdish language

Persian
linked to: Persian language
hasMorphologicalType fusional
hasNumberOfSpeakersEstimate tens of thousands
hasPhonologicalInfluenceFrom Arabic
hasReligionContext Shia Islam
Yarsanism
hasSociolinguisticSituation bilingualism with Arabic
bilingualism with Kurdish
hasWordOrder SOV
isMinorityLanguageOf Iraq
ISO639-3Code sdb
languageFamily Indo-European
Indo-Iranian
linguisticClassification Western Iranian
minorityLanguageIn Iraq
primaryArea villages east of Mosul
region Mosul area
linked to: Mosul

Nineveh Governorate
script Arabic script
spokenBy Shabak ethnic minority
Shabak people
spokenByMinorityGroupIn Nineveh Governorate
spokenIn Iraq
northern Iraq
usedAs marker of Shabak identity
usedIn home domain
religious practices
writingSystem Arabic script
linked to: Arabic alphabet

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (2)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Bahzani hasLanguageSpoken Shabaki