Zaza–Gorani is a Kurdic

linguistic Linguistics is the scientific study of language. The areas of linguistic analysis are syntax (rules governing the structure of sentences), semantics (meaning), Morphology (linguistics), morphology (structure of words), phonetics (speech sounds ...

subgroup of

Northwestern Iranian languages The Western Iranian languages or Western Iranic languages are a branch of the Iranian languages, attested from the time of Old Persian (6th century BC) and Median. Languages The traditional Northwestern branch is a convention for non-Southweste ...

. They are usually classified as a non- Kurdish branch of the

but most of their speakers consider themselves ethnic

Kurds Kurds (), or the Kurdish people, are an Iranian peoples, Iranic ethnic group from West Asia. They are indigenous to Kurdistan, which is a geographic region spanning southeastern Turkey, northwestern Iran, northern Iraq, and northeastern Syri ...

. 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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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

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IndoEuropeanTree.svg, Partial tree of Indo-European languages. Iranian_Family_Tree_v2.0.png, Position of Zaza-Gorani languages in Iranian Languages