Zaza people

The Zazas (also known as Kird, Kirmanc or Dimili)[7] are a people in eastern Turkey who traditionally speak the Zaza language, a western Iranian language written in the Latin script. Their homeland is made of Tunceli and Bingöl provinces and parts of Elazığ, Erzincan and Diyarbakır provinces.[3] Zazas generally[8] say that they are Kurds.[9][6][10][11] They are often named Zaza Kurds by scholars.[7][12][13][14][15]

Zazas
Geographic distribution of Zaza speakers (darker green) among Iranian speakers[1]
Total population
2 to 3 million[2]
Regions with significant populations
 Turkey
Diaspora: Approx. 300,000[3]
Australia, Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Netherlands, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States[4][5]
Languages
Zaza, Kurmanji Kurdish,[4] and Turkish
Religion
Mainly Shafiʽi school of Sunni Islam and minority Alevism[6] and Hanafism

Etymology and naming
Zaza woman from Tunceli Province

According to Encyclopædia Iranica the endonym Dimlī or Dīmla came from the Daylam region in Northern Iran. It is shown in Armenian historical records as delmik, dlmik. The people are known mainly as Zāzā to their neighbors. This meant “stutterer” and was used as a pejorative.

Notes
  1. Gippert 1999.
  2. Endangered Language Alliance.
  3. Asatrian (1995).
  4. Ziflioğlu (2011).
  5. Arakelova (1999), p. 400.
  6. Kehl-Bodrogi, Otter-Beaujean & Kellner-Heikele (1997), p. 13.
  7. Malmîsanij (1996), p. 1.
  8. Kehl-Bodrogi (1999), p. 442.
  9. Arakelova (1999), p. 397.
  10. Mosaki (2012).
  11. Postgate (2007), p. 148.
  12. Taylor (1865), p. 39.
  13. van Bruinessen (1989), p. 1.
  14. Özoğlu (2004), p. 35.
  15. Kaya (2009).

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