Zaza Dimlî

E837222

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