Bajelani dialect

Bajelani
Native to Iraq
Native speakers
(20,000 cited 1976)[1]
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

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

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