Northern Zazaki

Zazakiyê Zımey
Native to	Turkey
Region	Main in Tunceli, southern parts of Erzincan and eastern parts of Sivas
Ethnicity	Zaza
Native speakers	140,000 [1] (1998)[2]
Language family	Indo-European Indo-Iranian Iranian Western Northwestern Zazaki language Zazakiyê Zımey
Writing system	Latin script
Language codes
ISO 639-2	kiu
ISO 639-3	zza – inclusive code Individual codes: kiu – Kirmanjki (Northern Zazaki) diq – Dimli (Southern Zazaki)
Glottolog	zaza1246[3]
Linguasphere	58-AAA-ba

Northern Zazaki (in Zazaki: Zazakiyê Zımey, Kırmancki or Zonê Ma) is one of dialects of the Zazaki language. Northern Zazaki is predominantly spoken by over 150,000 people in the eastern provinces of Turkey such as Tunceli, Erzincan and Sivas.^[4]

Vocal differences of Northern Zazaki

There are some differences among dialects of Zazaki language. Specifically the word sh being s in Northern Zazaki:

Northern Zazaki	Southern and Central Zazaki	Meaning
doman	qeçek, qıc, tût, leyr	“kid, lad”
nas kerdene	şınasnayış, sılasnaene	“know”
bazar	bazar, kırê, kıri (< Armenian < Greek)	“bazaar”
nia daene, sêr kerdene, qayt k.	cı ra ewniyaene, cı onyayış	“look”
werte (< Trk.)	miyan	“middle”
thal	veng	“vacuous”

Northern and Southern Zazaki	Central Zazaki	Meaning
vuriya-ene	vuriya-y-ış	vary
vuriya-y-ış	vuriya-y-ış	variation

References

1. "Zazaki, Northern". Ethnologue.
2. Zazakiyê Zımey at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
   Kirmanjki (Northern Zazaki) at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
   Dimli (Southern Zazaki) at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
3. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Zaza". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
4. Joshua Project. "Language - Zazaki, Northern:: Joshua Project". joshuaproject.net.