Bajelani dialect

Bajelani
Native to	Iraq
Native speakers	(20,000 cited 1976)^[1]
Language family	Indo-European Indo-Iranian Iranian Western Northwestern I Zaza-Gorani Gorani Bajelani
Language codes
ISO 639-3	`bjm`
Glottolog	`baje1238`^[2]

Bajelani is a Gorani Kurdish dialect spoken by the Kurdish community in Iraq (Iraqi Kurdistan)^[3], including the Bajalan tribe. It is linguistically close to Shabaki, Hawrami and Sarli dialects. Many speakers have been displaced since the 1980s.

References

↑ Bajelani at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Bajelani". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
↑ http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/kurdish-tribes

External links

http://www.bajalan.com (NOTE: mostly in Arabic)

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