Zaza–Gorani is a
Kurdic linguistic
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subgroup of
Northwestern Iranian languages
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Languages
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. They are usually classified as a non-
Kurdish branch of the
Northwestern Iranian languages
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Languages
The traditional Northwestern branch is a convention for non-Southweste ...
but most of their speakers consider themselves ethnic
Kurds
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.
The Zaza–Gorani languages are the
Zaza and the
Gorani, and
Shabaki languages. Whereas Gorani is composed of four dialects being
Hawrami,
Bajelani and
Sarli.
Sources
External links
www.zazaki.net (Kırmancki, Zaza, Kirdki, Dimli)www.zazaki.de
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Northwestern Iranian languages
Languages of Kurdistan
Languages of Iraq
Languages of Iran
Languages of Turkey
Kurdish people
Zaza people
The Zazas (), also known as Kird, Kirmanc, or Dimili, are an Iranian peoples, Iranian people who speak Zaza language, Zazaki, a language of the Indo-European languages, Indo-European language family. They mostly live in the Eastern Anatolia r ...
Kurdish language
Indigenous languages of Asia
Gallery
IndoEuropeanTree.svg, Partial tree of Indo-European languages.
Iranian_Family_Tree_v2.0.png, Position of Zaza-Gorani languages in Iranian Languages