Zazaki

The zazaki (also called zaza , kirmancki , dumilî , dimli , dimilki ; local name: زازاکی / zāzākī ), sometimes presented like a Kurdish dialect , is a Indo-European Langue group of the Iranian Langues, spoken by the Zaza S, in the area of Dersim and Diyarbakır in Turkey. He is also spoken in other provinces about the Kurdistan (in the South).

The zazaki like autonomous language north-west-Iranian woman

The language zaza is still often considered today, for political reasons and cultural, like a Kurdish Langue. On the other hand the Iranologie (science, amongst other things, of the Iranian languages) notes clearly that the zazaki is an autonomous language of the north-western branch of the Iranian languages, of which also form part the Kurdish languages Kurmanci and Soranî. In this same north-western branch, the Kurdish languages form, with dialects center-Iranian, a genetic sub-group; the zazaki form on the other hand with the Gorani, an independent sub-unit Zaza-Gorani, which probably watch of the closer relations with the Baloutche.

Already linguistic researchers of the 19th century (for example Peter Lerch) affirmed that the zazaki was not a dialect of Kurdish, but autonomous language of the linguistic Famille Iranian. That supported the remarks of the German iranologists Oskar Mann and Karl Hadank, and their multiple studies, from which in 1932 resulted the first almost complete grammar from the zazaki under the title Mundarten der Zaza (dialect of the Zaza S). Old opinions regarding the zazaki as, “in the broad sense”, a “Kurdish language” (for example Ferdinand Justi in 1880), are regarded today as exceeded.

The zaza watch of the resemblances striking to the Parthian, Dead language center-Iranian woman, that do not divide the Persan (language of the south-west of Iran) and its previous versions. However, one cannot know if Parthian were a direct previous version of the zaza.

The zazaki, a Kurdish language

The difference between the kurmanci and the zazaki which divide them at the linguistic level can be geographical reasons. The Kurds were separate several times of Kurdistan to live in other areas of the mesopotamy; certain Kurdish was moved towards Khorosan (north-eastern of Iran), where live besides always Kurdish who speak the zazaki and the gorani.

Then during the Mongolian invasion, much of Kurdish Re-moved towards Kurdistan, in the area of Dersim and settled in the middle of other Kurdish groups and reinstated themselves. During long separation, each group developed its language compared to its environment.

Genetic research proves that the other Kurdish groups and Zazaki are of the same origin, therefore Zazaki is well a Kurdish language, but cannot be qualified of dialect because the various Kurdish languages evolved/moved each one on their side during centuries.

External bonds

  • Zazas
  • List_of_Biblical_names
  • Zaza Language
  • Zazaki
  • Zazaki Wikipédia

Internal bonds

External bonds

  • Zazaki
  • Information on the Kurdish language by Kurdish Institute of Paris
  • Kurdish Languages
  • Zaza and Zazaki
  • Course of zazaki of north, speech of Turkish Pülümür (; Pdf) (in German)
  • Bersiv (Answer) - research on the Kurdish culture
  • Seyidersimi - Dersim and its area

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