Zazaki
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Zazaki is a language spoken in eastern Anatolia above the rivers Euphrates and Tigris. It belongs to the northwest-Iranian group of the Iranian language branch of the Indo-European language family. The Zaza language is related to Sangsarī, Māzandarānī, Tātī (Herzendī), Semnānī, Tāleshī, Kurdish, Persian and Balōchi. An exact indication of the number of Zaza speakers is unknown. Internal Zaza sources estimate the total number of Zaza speakers at 3 to 6 million.
Zaza is also a name that appears [1] in the Bible, meaning "belonging to all" or "plenty". [2]
[edit] External links
- Zaza Bible Reference
- Ethnologue on Zazaki (language)
- Zazaki Wikipedia]
- Academic Research Center of Zazaki - (in several languages but as of 2004 not much English-language content)
- http://www.zazaki-institut.de
- http://www21.brinkster.com/miyaheqi/culture/
- http://f23.parsimony.net/forum49992/index.htm