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[29] [30] [31] The majority of Yazidis remaining in the Middle East today live in Iraq, primarily in the governorates of Nineveh and Duhok. [32] [33] There is a disagreement among scholars and in Yazidi circles on whether the Yazidi people are a distinct ethnoreligious group or a religious sub-group of the Kurds, an Iranic ethnic group.
Yazidi shrine of Mame Reshan, partially destroyed by ISIL, in the Sinjar Mountains. Yazidis believe in one God, to whom they refer as Xwedê, Xwedawend, Êzdan, and Pedsha ('King'), and, less commonly, Ellah and Heq. [2] [8] [9] [5] [15] According to some Yazidi hymns (known as Qewls), God has 1,001 names, or 3,003 names according to other Qewls.
Most Armenians in Lebanon can speak Western Armenian, and some can speak Turkish. Additionally, different sign languages are used by different people and educational establishments. Lebanon exists in a state of diglossia : MSA is used in formal writing and the news, while Lebanese Arabic—the variety of Levantine Arabic—is used as the native ...
Five years after their lives were torn apart by Islamic State militants, the Yazidis of Iraq are still unable to return home or locate hundreds of their women and children kidnapped and enslaved ...
The estimated 400,000-strong Yazidi community in Iraq is a Kurdish minority whose faith combines elements of Christianity, Zoroastrianism and Islam. Six years on: Yazidi survivors see 'only empty ...
Yazidis fled to the heights to escape IS, as they have done in past bouts of persecution. In Sinjar town, the district center, soldiers lounge in front of small shops on the main street.
The following is a list of Yazidi settlements in Iraq, Syria, Turkey, and Armenia, including both current and historical Yazidi settlements. Historically, Yazidis lived primarily in Iraq, Turkey, and Syria. [1] However, events since the end of the 20th century have resulted in considerable demographic shifts in these areas as well as mass ...
This resulted in the term Êzdîkî being used by some researchers when delving into the question of minority languages in Armenia, since most Kurdish-speakers in Armenia are Yazidis. [31] As a consequence of this move, Armenian universities offer language courses in both Kurmanji and Êzdîkî as two different dialects. [32]