Southern Zazaki

Dımli, Dımılki
Native to Turkey
Region Main in Diyarbakır, Elazığ, Siverek, Gerger
Ethnicity Zaza
Native speakers
1,500,000 [1] (1998)[2]
Latin script
Language codes
ISO 639-2 diq
ISO 639-3 zzainclusive code
Individual codes:
kiu  Kirmanjki (Northern Zazaki)
diq  Dimli (Southern Zazaki)
Glottolog zaza1246[3]
Linguasphere 58-AAA-ba

Southern Zazaki (in Zazaki: Dımli, Dımılki or Zazakiyê Veroci) is one of dialects of the Zazaki language. Southern Zazaki is predominantly spoken by over 1 million people in the southeastern provinces of Turkey such as Diyarbakır, Şanlıurfa and Adıyaman.[4]

References

  1. "Zazaki, Southern". Ethnologue.
  2. Dımli, Dımılki 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, Southern :: Joshua Project". joshuaproject.net.

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