Zaza Dimlî

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Zaza Dimlî is a Northwestern Iranian language spoken primarily in eastern Turkey by the Zaza people, often considered a distinct language closely related to Kurdish.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Zaza Kurds 2
Zaza Dimlî canonical 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (49)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Iranian language
Northwestern Iranian language
natural language
closelyRelatedTo Kurdish
ethnicGroup Zaza people
hasAlternativeName Dimili
Dimlî
Kirdki
linked to: Kird

Kirmanjki
Zazaki
hasBasicWordOrder SOV
hasDialect Central Zaza
linked to: Zazas

Northern Zaza
Southern Zaza
linked to: Zazas
hasGrammaticalFeature case marking on nouns
ergative alignment (split)
gender distinction in pronouns
postpositions
hasISO6393Code zza
hasLexicalInfluenceFrom Arabic
Kurdish
Persian
linked to: Persian language

Turkish
hasMorphologicalType agglutinative language
hasPhonologicalFeature vowel harmony (partial)
isConsideredByOthersAs independent language
isConsideredBySomeAs dialect of Kurdish
isEndangeredStatus vulnerable
isSpokenAsMinorityLanguageIn Turkey
isUsedIn folk songs
local media
oral literature
languageFamily Indo-European languages
Indo-Iranian languages
region Bingöl Province
Dersim
Diyarbakır Province
Eastern Anatolia
Elazığ Province
Erzincan Province
Palu
Siverek
Varto
spokenBy Zaza people
spokenIn Turkey
spokenPrimarilyIn eastern Turkey
subfamilyOf Northwestern Iranian languages
Western Iranian languages
writingSystem Latin script
linked to: Latin alphabet

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (3)

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

Dimlî hasAlternativeName Zaza Dimlî
Tunceli Province hasSignificantPopulationGroup Zaza Kurds
linked to: Zaza Dimlî
Kirmanjki spokenBy Zaza Kurds
linked to: Zaza Dimlî