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On the contrary only 58.4% of the surveyed Zaza people declared that their primary home language was Zazaki, and Turkish was the second most popular home language with 38.3% of Zazas speaking it at their homes. 1.9% of the surveyed people who identified as Zaza expressed that their home language was Kurdish. Around 1.4% people belonging to ...
Zaza (endonym: Zazakî, Dimlî, Dimilkî, Kirmanckî or Kirdkî) [4] [5] is a Northwestern Iranian language spoken primarily in eastern Turkey by the Zazas, who are mostly considered as Kurds, and in many cases identify as such.
Zaza people were largely assimilated by the Turks and Kurds." [6] Zaza nationalists accuse the PKK of being against Zazas. According to this section, Zaza settlements in the East were evacuated due to both the state and the PKK. Supporters of Zaza nationalism are afraid of being assimilated by Turkish and Kurdish influence.
Sorani is a written standard of Central Kurdish developed in the 1920s (named after the historical Soran Emirate) and was later adopted as the standard orthography of Kurdish as an official language of Iraq. [29] Southern Kurdish (Pehlewani) is spoken in the Kermanshah, Ilam and Lorestan provinces of Iran and in the Khanaqin District of eastern ...
Kurds speak the Kurdish languages and the Zaza–Gorani languages, which belong to the Western Iranian branch of the Iranian languages. [ 39 ] [ 40 ] Kurds do not comprise a majority in any country, making them a stateless people . [ 41 ]
Gorani (Kurdish: گۆرانی, romanized: Goranî, lit. 'song') [5] also known by its main dialect; Hawrami (ھەورامی, romanized: Hewramî) is a Northwestern Iranian language spoken by ethnic Kurds in northeastern Iraq and western Iran [6] and which with Zaza constitute the Zaza–Gorani languages.
The Lolan (Kirmanjki: Lol) is a Zaza-speaking Kurdish tribe. [1] [2] Lolan is one of the tribes with a large Alevi population. [3] Districts where the Lolan tribe is spread: Bingöl , Erzincan , Erzurum (Hınıs, Tekman), Gümüşhane , Muş , and Tunceli (Pülümür, Nazımiye, Çemişgezek). [4]
Nûredîn Zaza (born 15 February 1919 – 7 October 1988) was a Kurdish politician, writer and poet. He was a co-founder of the Kurdistan Democratic Party of Syria and a founding member of the Kurdish Institute of Paris .