Branch of northwestern Iranian languages
Zaza–Gorani is a Kurdic linguistic subgroup of Northwestern Iranian languages . They are usually classified as a non-Kurdish branch of the Northwestern Iranian languages [ 4] [ 5] [ 6] but most of their speakers consider themselves ethnic Kurds .[ 7] [ 8] [ 9] [ 10]
The Zaza–Gorani languages are the Zaza and the Gorani ,[ 11] [ 12] and Shabaki [ 13] [ 14] [ 15] [ 16] languages. Whereas Gorani is composed of four dialects being Hawrami , Bajelani and Sarli .[ 17] [ 18]
Sources
^ Ethnologue.com - Zaza-Gorani
^ Linguistik List Language Search - Zaza-Gorani
^ Glottolog - Family Zaza
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^ Arakelova, Victoria (1999). "The Zaza People as a New Ethno-Political Factor in the Region". Iran & the Caucasus . 3/4 : 397– 408. doi :10.1163/157338499X00335 . JSTOR 4030804 .
^ Kehl-Bodrogi; Otter-Beaujean; Barbara Kellner-Heikele (1997). Syncretistic religious communities in the Near East : collected papers of the international symposium "Alevism in Turkey and comparable syncretistic religious communities in the Near East in the past and present", Berlin, 14-17 April 1995 . Leiden: Brill. p. 13. ISBN 9789004108615 .
^ Nodar Mosaki (14 March 2012). "The zazas: a kurdish sub-ethnic group or separate people?" . Zazaki.net. Retrieved 11 August 2015 .
^ J.N. Postgate (2007). Languages of Iraq, ancient and modern (PDF) . Cambridge : British School of Archaeology in Iraq . p. 148. ISBN 978-0-903472-21-0 . Retrieved 20 May 2019 .
^ "Traditional classification tree" . Iranatlas.com. Retrieved 30 May 2019 .
^ I. M. Nick (2019). Forensic linguistics asylum-seekers, refugees and immigrants . Vernon Press. p. 60. ISBN 9781622731305 .
^ Hulst, Harry van der; Goedemans, Rob; Zanten, Ellen van (2010). A Survey of Word Accentual Patterns in the Languages of the World . Walter de Gruyter. ISBN 9783110196313 .
^ Hindo, Walid A. (2016-09-08). From Baghdad on the Tigris to Baghdad on the Subway . Archway Publishing. ISBN 9781480834033 .
^ Gunter, Michael M. (2018-02-20). Historical Dictionary of the Kurds . Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 9781538110508 .
^ "Zaza-Gorani" . Ethnologue . Retrieved 2018-10-22 .
^ "Bajalan" . Iranica Online . Retrieved 30 May 2019 .
^ "Gurani" . Iranica Online . Retrieved 30 May 2019 .
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