Northern Dimlî

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Northern Dimlî is a regional variety of the Dimlî (Zaza) language spoken primarily in the northern parts of its traditional area in eastern Turkey.

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Label Occurrences
Northern Dimlî canonical 1

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Statements (46)

Predicate Object
instanceOf dialect
language variety
alternativeName Kuzey Dimlî
Kuzey Zazaca
Northern Zaza
Northern Zazaki
linked to: Zazaki

Zazakîya Bakur
linked to: Zazaki
closelyRelatedTo Central Zazaki
linked to: Southern Zazaki

Southern Dimlî
country Turkey
distinctFrom Kurmanji
Sorani
Turkish
endangeredStatus vulnerable
hasMorphologicalFeatures ergative alignment
rich case system
hasPhonologicalFeatures vowel harmony tendencies differing from Southern Dimlî
hasSubvarieties local village varieties in northern Zaza areas
hasSyntacticFeatures predominantly SOV word order
influencedBy Kurmanji
Turkish
ISO639-3 zza
languageFamily Indo-European languages
Indo-Iranian languages
Iranian languages
Northwestern Iranian languages
lexicalSimilarityWith Central Zazaki
Southern Dimlî
minorityLanguageIn Turkey
partOf Zaza
partOfDialectContinuum Zaza dialect continuum
region northern parts of the Dimlî-speaking area
script Latin script
sharesISOCodeWith Central Zazaki
linked to: Southern Zazaki

Southern Dimlî
spokenIn Eastern Anatolia
Turkey
eastern Turkey
status primarily spoken language
subdivisionOf Dimlî
Zaza language
traditionalUse folklore
oral literature
religious poetry
usedBy Zaza people
writingSystem Latin alphabet

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

Dimlî hasDialect Northern Dimlî