Zaza people

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The Zaza people are an ethnic group primarily inhabiting eastern Turkey, known for their distinct Zazaki language and cultural traditions separate from neighboring Kurdish and Turkish populations.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Zaza people canonical 4

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (61)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Indo-European peoples
ethnic group
countryOfCitizenship Turkey
culturalTrait distinct Zazaki language
distinct folk music traditions
distinct oral literature
distinct religious practices among Alevis
traditional tribal social structures
diaspora Austria
France
Germany
Netherlands
Sweden
Switzerland
United States
ethnonym Dimili
Dimilis
linked to: Dimili

Kird
Zaza
historicalRegion Dersim region
linked to: Tunceli Province
language Zazaki
languageFamily Indo-European languages
Indo-Iranian languages
Iranian languages
Northwestern Iranian languages
linguisticStatus Zazaki considered by many linguists a separate Northwestern Iranian language
notableCityPresence Bingöl
linked to: Bingöl Province

Dersim (Tunceli)
linked to: Tunceli Province

Diyarbakır
Elazığ
Erzincan
linked to: Erzincan Province
populationEstimate several million in Turkey (various estimates)
primaryCountry Turkey
primaryRegion Eastern Anatolia
Eastern Turkey
linked to: eastern Turkey
recognizedAsMinorityLanguage Zazaki in Turkey (limited and contested)
relatedEthnicGroup Gorani people
Iranian peoples
Kurds
Lurs
Persians
Talysh people
linked to: Talysh
religion Alevi Islam
linked to: Alevism

Alevism
Hanafi Sunni Islam
linked to: Hanafi school

Shafi‘i Sunni Islam
Sunni Islam
Yazidism
scriptUsedForLanguage Latin script
selfIdentificationDebate some identify as Kurds
some identify as a distinct people
significantRegion Adıyaman Province
Bingöl Province
Diyarbakır Province
Elazığ Province
Erzincan Province
Erzurum Province
Malatya Province
Sivas Province
Tunceli Province
Şanlıurfa Province

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Referenced by (4)

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

Zazaki spokenBy Zaza people
Zazaki hasEthnicAssociation Zaza people
Dimlî spokenBy Zaza people