The Zangana tribe is a Kurdish tribe in Kermanshah province and some parts of

Iraqi Kurdistan Iraqi Kurdistan or Southern Kurdistan ( ku, باشووری کوردستان, Başûrê Kurdistanê) refers to the Kurdish-populated part of northern Iraq. It is considered one of the four parts of "Kurdistan" in Western Asia, which also incl ...

. They speak a distinct dialect. However, in recent years they have linguistically assimilated into the language practice of

Sorani Central Kurdish (), also called Sorani (), is a Kurdish dialect or a language that is spoken in Iraq, mainly in Iraqi Kurdistan, as well as the provinces of Kurdistan, Kermanshah, and West Azerbaijan in western Iran. Sorani is one of the two o ...

speakers in the area in which they live.Michiel Leezenberg, ILLC- Department of Philosophy, University of Amsterdam, "Gorani Influence on Central Kurdish

/ref> The settlement patterns of the people have shifted since the late 1980s. The

Saddam Hussein Saddam Hussein ( ; ar, صدام حسين, Ṣaddām Ḥusayn; 28 April 1937 – 30 December 2006) was an Iraqi politician who served as the fifth president of Iraq from 16 July 1979 until 9 April 2003. A leading member of the revolution ...

regime relocated them in the

Al-Anfal Campaign The Anfal campaign; ku, شاڵاوی ئەنفال or the Kurdish genocide was a counterinsurgency operation which was carried out by Ba'athist Iraq from February to September 1988, at the end of the Iran–Iraq War. The campaign targeted rur ...

of 1988; also, in the course of the refugee dislocations of 1991 the Zangana people relocated.

Additional reference

* Cecil J. Edmonds, ''Kurds, Turks and Arabs: Politics, Travel and Research in North-Eastern Iraq, 1919-1925,'' London, 1957.

References

Kurdish tribes * {{kurdistan-stub