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region of northern

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, Turkish and Persian language. The number of speakers of Shabaki was estimated in 1989 to be between 10,000 and 20,000.Ethnologue about Shabaki
/ref> Currently, the number of native speakers of Shabaki is estimated at 250,000. As Shabaki is one of the Zaza–Gorani languages, it is most similar to other Dialects of Gorani; Hewrami Bajelani, Sarli. and to Zazaki.

Status

The Shabak people fear the demise of the Shabaki language especially after the occupation of the ISIS terrorist groups to their home in Nineveh Plain, which led to the displacement of the majority of their population and the other groups residing in that area.

Comparison

Pronouns

Vocabulary

Notes

Literature

* Dr. Sultan, Abbas Hassan Jassim ( University of Kufa, Iraq)
Shabaki - English Dictionary
or here a
PDF
(2016)
An Account of Light verb constructions in Shabaki
(Vol. 5 2011, 2)
An Account of Clitics in Shabaki with Reference to Wackernagel's Law
(2014)
Serial verb constructions in Shabaki

Reciprocal Pronouns in Shabaki
(Vol. 4 2010, 1)
Causatives in Shabaki
(Vol. 4 2010, 2)
An Account of Epistemic Modality in Shabaki

The truth conditional content of evidentials in Shabaki

Evidentials in Shabaki

Shabaki alphabets
or here a
Slideshow
* E. K. Brown, R. E. Asher, J. M. Y. Simpson (Elsevier, 2006)
Encyclopedia of language & linguistics, Band 2

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Shabaki Language Northwestern Iranian languages Languages of Iraq Languages of Kurdistan Shabak people