Zaza language, the Glossary
Zaza or Zazaki is a Northwestern Iranian language spoken primarily in eastern Turkey by the Zazas, who are commonly considered as Kurds, and in many cases identify as such.[1]
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172 relations: A, Aşkale, Adıyaman Province, Affricate, Alacakaya, Alveolar consonant, Approximant, Arabic alphabet, Arabic prosody, Arıcak, Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger, Ç, Çüngüş, Çemişgezek, Çermik, Ê, Î, Û, Ğ, İ, Ş, B, Back vowel, Balochi language, Bingöl Province, Bingöl University, C, Central vowel, Clitic, Close vowel, Council of Higher Education (Turkey), D, Dental consonant, Dicle, Diyarbakır Province, E, Eğil, Ehmedê Xasî, Elazığ Province, Encyclopædia Iranica, Ergani, Ergative–absolutive alignment, Erzincan Province, Erzurum Province, Ethnologue, Ezāfe, F, France, Fricative, Front vowel, ... Expand index (122 more) »
- Languages of Kurdistan
- Northwestern Iranian languages
- Zazas
A
A, or a, is the first letter and the first vowel letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, and others worldwide.
Aşkale
Aşkale is a municipality and district of Erzurum Province, Turkey.
Adıyaman Province
Adıyaman Province (Adıyaman ili, Parêzgeha Semsûr) is a province in the Southeastern Anatolia Region of Turkey.
See Zaza language and Adıyaman Province
Affricate
An affricate is a consonant that begins as a stop and releases as a fricative, generally with the same place of articulation (most often coronal).
See Zaza language and Affricate
Alacakaya
Alacakaya (Guleman) is a town of Elazığ Province of Turkey.
See Zaza language and Alacakaya
Alveolar consonant
Alveolar (UK also) consonants are articulated with the tongue against or close to the superior alveolar ridge, which is called that because it contains the alveoli (the sockets) of the upper teeth.
See Zaza language and Alveolar consonant
Approximant
Approximants are speech sounds that involve the articulators approaching each other but not narrowly enough nor with enough articulatory precision to create turbulent airflow.
See Zaza language and Approximant
Arabic alphabet
The Arabic alphabet (الْأَبْجَدِيَّة الْعَرَبِيَّة, or الْحُرُوف الْعَرَبِيَّة), or Arabic abjad, is the Arabic script as specifically codified for writing the Arabic language.
See Zaza language and Arabic alphabet
Arabic prosody
(اَلْعَرُوض) or is the study of poetic meters, which identifies the meter of a poem and determines whether the meter is sound or broken in lines of the poem.
See Zaza language and Arabic prosody
Arıcak
Arıcak (Mîrvan), is a town of Elazığ Province of Turkey.
Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger
The UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger was an online publication containing a comprehensive list of the world's endangered languages.
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Ç
Ç or ç (C-cedilla) is a Latin script letter used in the Albanian, Azerbaijani, Manx, Tatar, Turkish, Turkmen, Kurdish, Kazakh, and Romance alphabets.
Çüngüş
Çüngüş (چونکوش, Çêngûş, translit) is a municipality and district of Diyarbakır Province, Turkey.
Çemişgezek
Çemişgezek (Melkişî; translit) is a municipality (belde) and seat of Çemişgezek District of Tunceli Province, Turkey.
See Zaza language and Çemişgezek
Çermik
Çermik (Jermuk; Çermûk) is a municipality and district of Diyarbakır Province, Turkey.
Ê
Ê, ê (e-circumflex) is a letter of the Latin alphabet, found in Afrikaans, French, Friulian, Kurdish, Norwegian (Nynorsk), Portuguese, Vietnamese, and Welsh.
Î
Î, î (i-circumflex) is a letter in the Friulian, Kurdish, Tupi, Persian Rumi, and Romanian alphabets and phonetic Filipino.
Û
Û, û (u-circumflex) is a letter of the Latin script.
Ğ
Ğ (g with breve; minuscule: ğ) is a Latin letter found in the Turkish and Azerbaijani alphabets as well as the Latin alphabets of Zazaki, Laz, Crimean Tatar, Tatar, and Kazakh.
İ
İ, or i, called dotted I or i-dot, is a letter used in the Latin-script alphabets of Azerbaijani, Crimean Tatar, Gagauz, Kazakh, Tatar, and Turkish.
Ş
S-cedilla (majuscule: Ş, minuscule: ş) is a letter used in some of the Turkic languages.
B
B, or b, is the second letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide.
Back vowel
A back vowel is any in a class of vowel sound used in spoken languages.
See Zaza language and Back vowel
Balochi language
Balochi (rtl, romanized) is a Northwestern Iranian language, spoken primarily in the Balochistan region of Pakistan, Iran and Afghanistan. Zaza language and Balochi language are northwestern Iranian languages.
See Zaza language and Balochi language
Bingöl Province
Bingöl Province (Bingöl ili; Parêzgeha Çewlîg;; Ճապաղջուր զավառ) is a province of Turkey.
See Zaza language and Bingöl Province
Bingöl University
Bingöl University is a university located in Bingöl, Turkey.
See Zaza language and Bingöl University
C
C, or c, is the third letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide.
Central vowel
A central vowel, formerly also known as a mixed vowel, is any in a class of vowel sound used in some spoken languages.
See Zaza language and Central vowel
Clitic
In morphology and syntax, a clitic (backformed from Greek ἐγκλιτικός "leaning" or "enclitic"Crystal, David. A First Dictionary of Linguistics and Phonetics. Boulder, CO: Westview, 1980. Print.) is a morpheme that has syntactic characteristics of a word, but depends phonologically on another word or phrase.
Close vowel
A close vowel, also known as a high vowel (in U.S. terminology), is any in a class of vowel sounds used in many spoken languages.
See Zaza language and Close vowel
Council of Higher Education (Turkey)
The Council of Higher Education (Yükseköğretim Kurulu, YÖK; also translated as Higher Education Board) is responsible for the supervision of universities in Turkey, in a capacity defined by article 130 of the 1982 constitution.
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D
D, or d, is the fourth letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide.
Dental consonant
A dental consonant is a consonant articulated with the tongue against the upper teeth, such as,. In some languages, dentals are distinguished from other groups, such as alveolar consonants, in which the tongue contacts the gum ridge.
See Zaza language and Dental consonant
Dicle
Dicle (Pîran, پيران) is a municipality and district of Diyarbakır Province, Turkey.
Diyarbakır Province
Diyarbakır Province (Diyarbakır ili, Zazaki: Suke Diyarbekır Parêzgeha Amedê) is a province and metropolitan municipality in southeastern Turkey.
See Zaza language and Diyarbakır Province
E
E, or e, is the fifth letter and the second vowel letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide.
Eğil
Eğil (Ingalawa; اکيل; Gêl) is a municipality and district of Diyarbakır Province, Turkey.
Ehmedê Xasî
Ehmedê Xasî (born in 1866/67 in Lice – died 18 February 1951) was a Kurdish literary figure and Mufti.
See Zaza language and Ehmedê Xasî
Elazığ Province
Elazığ Province (Elazığ ili; Zazaki: Suke Xarpêt; Parêzgeha Xarpêtê) is a province of Turkey with its seat in the city of Elazığ.
See Zaza language and Elazığ Province
Encyclopædia Iranica
Encyclopædia Iranica is a project whose goal is to create a comprehensive and authoritative English-language encyclopedia about the history, culture, and civilization of Iranian peoples from prehistory to modern times.
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Ergani
Ergani (translit, Erxenî), formerly known as Arghni or Arghana, is a municipality and district of Diyarbakır Province, Turkey.
Ergative–absolutive alignment
In linguistic typology, ergative–absolutive alignment is a type of morphosyntactic alignment in which the single argument ("subject") of an intransitive verb behaves like the object of a transitive verb, and differently from the agent ("subject") of a transitive verb.
See Zaza language and Ergative–absolutive alignment
Erzincan Province
Erzincan Province (Erzincan ili; Parezgêha Erzînganê; Էրզինկանի զավառ) is a province in the Eastern Anatolia Region of Turkey.
See Zaza language and Erzincan Province
Erzurum Province
Erzurum Province (Erzurum ili) is a province and metropolitan municipality in the Eastern Anatolia Region of Turkey.
See Zaza language and Erzurum Province
Ethnologue
Ethnologue: Languages of the World is an annual reference publication in print and online that provides statistics and other information on the living languages of the world.
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Ezāfe
Ezāfe (lit) is a grammatical particle found in some Iranian languages, as well as Persian-influenced languages such as Ottoman Turkish and Hindi-Urdu, that links two words together. In the Persian language, it consists of the unstressed short vowel -e or -i (-ye or -yi after vowels) between the words it connects and often approximately corresponds in usage to the English preposition of.
F
F, or f, is the sixth letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide.
France
France, officially the French Republic, is a country located primarily in Western Europe.
Fricative
A fricative is a consonant produced by forcing air through a narrow channel made by placing two articulators close together.
See Zaza language and Fricative
Front vowel
A front vowel is a class of vowel sounds used in some spoken languages, its defining characteristic being that the highest point of the tongue is positioned as far forward as possible in the mouth without creating a constriction that would otherwise make it a consonant.
See Zaza language and Front vowel
G
G, or g, is the seventh letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages, and others worldwide.
Genç, Bingöl
Genç (Darahênê, Dara Hênî, transl) is a town in Bingöl Province in Turkey.
See Zaza language and Genç, Bingöl
Germany
Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG), is a country in Central Europe.
Gilaki language
Gilaki (گیلٚکي زٚوؤن ɡilɵki zɵvön) is an Iranian language of the Northwestern branch, spoken in south of Caspian Sea by Gilak people. Zaza language and Gilaki language are northwestern Iranian languages.
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Glottal consonant
Glottal consonants are consonants using the glottis as their primary articulation.
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Glottolog
Glottolog is an open-access online bibliographic database of the world's languages.
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Grammatical gender
In linguistics, a grammatical gender system is a specific form of a noun class system, where nouns are assigned to gender categories that are often not related to the real-world qualities of the entities denoted by those nouns.
See Zaza language and Grammatical gender
Grammatical modifier
In linguistics, a modifier is an optional element in phrase structure or clause structure which modifies the meaning of another element in the structure.
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H
H, or h, is the eighth letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, including the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide.
Hani, Turkey
Hani (هانی Hani, پالی معدن Palimaden, Hênî) is a municipality and district of Diyarbakır Province, Turkey.
See Zaza language and Hani, Turkey
Harzandi dialect
Harzandi or Harzani (Tati: هرزندی، هرزنی) is a dialect of the Tati language, spoken in the northern regions of the East Azarbaijan province of Iran. Zaza language and Harzandi dialect are northwestern Iranian languages.
See Zaza language and Harzandi dialect
Hınıs
Hınıs (Xinûs; Khnus) is a municipality and district of Erzurum Province, Turkey.
Hozat
Hozat (خوزات, Xozat.) is a municipality (belde) and seat of Hozat District in Tunceli Province, Turkey.
I
I, or i, is the ninth letter and the third vowel letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide.
Indo-Iranian languages
The Indo-Iranian languages (also known as Indo-Iranic languages or collectively the Aryan languages) constitute the largest and southeasternmost extant branch of the Indo-European language family.
See Zaza language and Indo-Iranian languages
Inflection
In linguistic morphology, inflection (less commonly, inflexion) is a process of word formation in which a word is modified to express different grammatical categories such as tense, case, voice, aspect, person, number, gender, mood, animacy, and definiteness.
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International Phonetic Alphabet
The International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) is an alphabetic system of phonetic notation based primarily on the Latin script.
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Iranian languages
The Iranian languages, also called the Iranic languages, are a branch of the Indo-Iranian languages in the Indo-European language family that are spoken natively by the Iranian peoples, predominantly in the Iranian Plateau.
See Zaza language and Iranian languages
ISO 639
ISO 639 is a standard by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) concerned with representation of languages and language groups.
ISO 639 macrolanguage
A macrolanguage is a group of mutually intelligible speech varieties, or dialect continuum, that have no traditional name in common, and which may be considered distinct languages by their speakers.
See Zaza language and ISO 639 macrolanguage
J
J, or j, is the tenth letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide.
Jost Gippert
Jost Gippert (born 12 March 1956 in Winz-Niederwenigern, later merged to Hattingen) is a German linguist, Caucasiologist, author, and the professor for Comparative Linguistics at the Institute of Empirical Linguistics at the Goethe University of Frankfurt.
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K
K, or k, is the eleventh letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide.
Karakoçan
Karakoçan (تپه Tepe, Dep, Oxi) is a town of Elazığ Province in the Eastern Anatolia region of Turkey.
See Zaza language and Karakoçan
Karlıova
Karlıova (Kanîreş) is a town and seat of the Karlıova District in Bingöl Province of Turkey.
See Zaza language and Karlıova
Kelkit
Kelkit is a town in Gümüşhane Province in the Black Sea region of Turkey.
Kovancılar
Kovancılar (Qowançiyan) is a town in Elazığ Province of Turkey.
See Zaza language and Kovancılar
Kulp, Turkey
Kulp (Pasûr, translit, central district: translit, transl) is a municipality and district of Diyarbakır Province, Turkey.
See Zaza language and Kulp, Turkey
Kurds
Kurds or Kurdish people (rtl, Kurd) are an Iranic ethnic group native to the mountainous region of Kurdistan in Western Asia, which spans southeastern Turkey, northwestern Iran, northern Iraq, and northern Syria.
Kurmanji
Kurmanji (lit), also termed Northern Kurdish, is the northernmost of the Kurdish languages, spoken predominantly in southeast Turkey, northwest and northeast Iran, northern Iraq, northern Syria and the Caucasus and Khorasan regions. Zaza language and Kurmanji are languages of Kurdistan and languages of Turkey.
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L
L, or l, is the twelfth letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide.
Labial consonant
Labial consonants are consonants in which one or both lips are the active articulator.
See Zaza language and Labial consonant
Lateral consonant
A lateral is a consonant in which the airstream proceeds along one or both of the sides of the tongue, but it is blocked by the tongue from going through the middle of the mouth.
See Zaza language and Lateral consonant
Latin alphabet
The Latin alphabet, also known as the Roman alphabet, is the collection of letters originally used by the ancient Romans to write the Latin language.
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Latin script
The Latin script, also known as the Roman script, is a writing system based on the letters of the classical Latin alphabet, derived from a form of the Greek alphabet which was in use in the ancient Greek city of Cumae in Magna Graecia.
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Letter case
Letter case is the distinction between the letters that are in larger uppercase or capitals (or more formally majuscule) and smaller lowercase (or more formally minuscule) in the written representation of certain languages.
See Zaza language and Letter case
Lice, Turkey
Lice (pronounced), (Licê, ليجه) is a municipality and district of Diyarbakır Province, Turkey.
See Zaza language and Lice, Turkey
Linguonym
Linguonym (from lingua / language, and ὄνομα / name), also known as glossonym (from γλῶσσα / language) or glottonym (from Attic Greek: γλῶττα / language), is a linguistic term that designates a proper name of an individual language, or a language family.
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M
M, or m, is the thirteenth letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide.
Malatya Province
Malatya Province (Malatya ili; Parezgêha Meletî) is a province and metropolitan municipality of Turkey.
See Zaza language and Malatya Province
Mazanderani language
Mazandarani (Mazanderani: مازِرونی, Mazeruni; also spelled Mazani (مازنی) or Tabari (تبری); also called Geleki) is an Iranian language of the Northwestern branch spoken by the Mazandarani people. Zaza language and Mazanderani language are northwestern Iranian languages.
See Zaza language and Mazanderani language
Mazgirt
Mazgirt (lit; Mêzgir), is a town and seat of the Mazgirt District of the Tunceli Province in Turkey.
Mid vowel
A mid vowel (or a true-mid vowel) is any in a class of vowel sounds used in some spoken languages.
See Zaza language and Mid vowel
Morphology (linguistics)
In linguistics, morphology is the study of words, including the principles by which they are formed, and how they relate to one another within a language.
See Zaza language and Morphology (linguistics)
Muş Province
Muş Province (Muş ili; Mushi marz; Parêzgeha Mûşê is a province in the east Anatolia region of Turkey (Türkiye). Its area is 8,718 km2, and its population is 399,202 (2022), down from 453,654 in 2000. The provincial capital is the city of Muş. Another town in Muş province, Malazgirt (Manzikert), is famous for the Battle of Manzikert of 1071.
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Munzur University
Munzur University (Turkish:Munzur Üniversitesi) is a university located in Tunceli, Turkey.
See Zaza language and Munzur University
Mutki
Mutki (Motkî, Motkan) is a town in Bitlis Province, Turkey.
N
N, or n, is the fourteenth letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages, and others worldwide.
Nahj al-balagha
(lit) is the best-known collection of sermons, letters, and sayings attributed to Ali ibn Abi Talib, the fourth Rashidun caliph, the first Shia imam, and the cousin and son-in-law of the Islamic prophet Muhammad.
See Zaza language and Nahj al-balagha
Nasal consonant
In phonetics, a nasal, also called a nasal occlusive or nasal stop in contrast with an oral stop or nasalized consonant, is an occlusive consonant produced with a lowered velum, allowing air to escape freely through the nose.
See Zaza language and Nasal consonant
Naskh (script)
Naskh is a smaller, round script of Islamic calligraphy.
See Zaza language and Naskh (script)
Nazımiye
Nazımiye (or briefly Qisle; italic) is a municipality (belde) and seat of the Nazımiye District of Tunceli Province in Turkey.
See Zaza language and Nazımiye
Nominal (linguistics)
In linguistics, the term nominal refers to a category used to group together nouns and adjectives based on shared properties.
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Nominative–accusative alignment
In linguistic typology, nominative–accusative alignment is a type of morphosyntactic alignment in which subjects of intransitive verbs are treated like subjects of transitive verbs, and are distinguished from objects of transitive verbs in basic clause constructions.
See Zaza language and Nominative–accusative alignment
O
O, or o, is the fifteenth letter and the fourth vowel letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide.
Old Azeri
Old Azeri (also spelled Adhari, Azeri or Azari) is the extinct Iranian language that was once spoken in the northwestern Iranian historic region of Azerbaijan (Iranian Azerbaijan) before the Turkification of the region. Zaza language and Old Azeri are northwestern Iranian languages.
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Open vowel
An open vowel is a vowel sound in which the tongue is positioned as far as possible from the roof of the mouth.
See Zaza language and Open vowel
Orthography
An orthography is a set of conventions for writing a language, including norms of spelling, hyphenation, capitalization, word boundaries, emphasis, and punctuation.
See Zaza language and Orthography
Osman Efendîyo Babij
Osman Efendîyo Babij or Osman Esad (born 1852 in Siverek – died in 1929 in Siverek) was a Kurdish religious figure and Mufti of Siverek whose 1903 book Mawlûd is known to be the second published book in Zaza.
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Ottoman Empire
The Ottoman Empire, historically and colloquially known as the Turkish Empire, was an imperial realm centered in Anatolia that controlled much of Southeast Europe, West Asia, and North Africa from the 14th to early 20th centuries; it also controlled parts of southeastern Central Europe, between the early 16th and early 18th centuries.
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Ottoman Turkish
Ottoman Turkish (Lisân-ı Osmânî,; Osmanlı Türkçesi) was the standardized register of the Turkish language in the Ottoman Empire (14th to 20th centuries CE).
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Ovacık, Tunceli
Ovacık (translit) is a municipality (belde) and seat of the Ovacık District in Tunceli Province, Turkey.
See Zaza language and Ovacık, Tunceli
P
P, or p, is the sixteenth letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide.
Palatal consonant
Palatals are consonants articulated with the body of the tongue raised against the hard palate (the middle part of the roof of the mouth).
See Zaza language and Palatal consonant
Palato-alveolar consonant
In phonetics, palato-alveolar or palatoalveolar consonants are postalveolar consonants, nearly always sibilants, that are weakly palatalized with a domed (bunched-up) tongue.
See Zaza language and Palato-alveolar consonant
Palu, Elazığ
Palu (Բալու; Palo) is a town of Elazığ Province of Turkey.
See Zaza language and Palu, Elazığ
Parthian language
The Parthian language, also known as Arsacid Pahlavi and Pahlawānīg, is an extinct ancient Northwestern Iranian language once spoken in Parthia, a region situated in present-day northeastern Iran and Turkmenistan. Zaza language and Parthian language are northwestern Iranian languages.
See Zaza language and Parthian language
Past tense
The past tense is a grammatical tense whose function is to place an action or situation in the past.
See Zaza language and Past tense
Pülümür
Pülümür (Pilemor) is a municipality (belde) and seat of Pülümür District, Tunceli Province, Turkey.
Perfective aspect
The perfective aspect (abbreviated), sometimes called the aoristic aspect, is a grammatical aspect that describes an action viewed as a simple whole, i.e., a unit without interior composition.
See Zaza language and Perfective aspect
Periodical literature
A periodical literature (also called a periodical publication or simply a periodical) is a published work that appears in a new edition on a regular schedule.
See Zaza language and Periodical literature
Pertek
Pertek (from translit, Pêrteg) is a town and seat of Pertek District in Tunceli Province, Turkey.
Pharyngeal consonant
A pharyngeal consonant is a consonant that is articulated primarily in the pharynx.
See Zaza language and Pharyngeal consonant
Pharyngealization
Pharyngealization is a secondary articulation of consonants or vowels by which the pharynx or epiglottis is constricted during the articulation of the sound.
See Zaza language and Pharyngealization
Phoneme
In linguistics and specifically phonology, a phoneme is any set of similar phones (speech sounds) that is perceptually regarded by the speakers of a language as a single distinct unit, a single basic sound, which helps distinguish one word from another.
Plosive
In phonetics, a plosive, also known as an occlusive or simply a stop, is a pulmonic consonant in which the vocal tract is blocked so that all airflow ceases.
Q
Q, or q, is the seventeenth letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide.
R
R, or r, is the eighteenth letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide.
Rhotic consonant
In phonetics, rhotic consonants, or "R-like" sounds, are liquid consonants that are traditionally represented orthographically by symbols derived from the Greek letter rho, including r in the Latin script and p in the Cyrillic script.
See Zaza language and Rhotic consonant
S
S, or s, is the nineteenth letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide.
Sangsari language
Sangsari or Sangisari is an Iranian language spoken mainly in the Semnan and Tehran provinces of Iran, especially in the Sangesar (Mahdi Shehr) town and in several surrounding villages. Zaza language and Sangsari language are northwestern Iranian languages.
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Süleyman Çelebi (poet)
Süleyman Çelebi (– 1422 CE) (pronounced Sulaiman Chalabi), imam of the Grand Mosque of Bursa during the Ottoman Empire, was an Islamic mystic and author whose only known work is Wasilat al-Najat.
See Zaza language and Süleyman Çelebi (poet)
Selim III
Selim III (Selim-i sâlis; III.; 24 December 1761 – 28 July 1808) was the sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1789 to 1807.
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Semnani language
Semnani (سمنی زفون, Semani zefön) (known also as Komisenian languages) is one of the local languages of the Semnan Province of Iran. Zaza language and Semnani language are northwestern Iranian languages.
See Zaza language and Semnani language
SIL International
SIL International (formerly known as the Summer Institute of Linguistics) is an evangelical Christian nonprofit organization whose main purpose is to study, develop and document languages, especially those that are lesser-known, in order to expand linguistic knowledge, promote literacy, translate the Christian Bible into local languages, and aid minority language development.
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Sivas Province
Sivas Province (Sivas ili) is a province of Turkey.
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Solhan
Solhan (Bongilan,, translit) is a town (belde) and seat of the Solhan District of Bingöl Province in Turkey.
Split ergativity
In linguistic typology, split ergativity is a feature of certain languages where some constructions use ergative syntax and morphology, but other constructions show another pattern, usually nominative–accusative.
See Zaza language and Split ergativity
Stockholm
Stockholm is the capital and most populous city of the Kingdom of Sweden as well as the largest urban area in the Nordic countries.
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Sweden
Sweden, formally the Kingdom of Sweden, is a Nordic country located on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe.
T
T, or t, is the twentieth letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide.
Talysh language
Talysh (تؤلشه زوؤن, Tolışə Zıvon, Tолышә зывон) is a Northwestern Iranian language spoken in the northern regions of the Iranian provinces of Gilan and Ardabil and the southern regions of the Republic of Azerbaijan by around 500,000-800,000 people. Zaza language and Talysh language are northwestern Iranian languages.
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Tap and flap consonants
In phonetics, a flap or tap is a type of consonantal sound, which is produced with a single contraction of the muscles so that one articulator (such as the tongue) is thrown against another.
See Zaza language and Tap and flap consonants
Tati language (Iran)
The Tati language (Tati: تاتی زبون, Tâti Zobun) is a Northwestern Iranian language spoken by the Tat people of Iran which is closely related to other languages such as Talysh, Zaza, Mazandarani and Gilaki. Zaza language and Tati language (Iran) are northwestern Iranian languages.
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Tekman
Tekman, (Tatos.), is a municipality and district of Erzurum Province, Turkey.
Tercan
Tercan (formerly Mama Hatun, and Derzene; in the Byzantine era; Têrcan) is a town and seat of Tercan District of Erzincan Province in the Eastern Anatolia region of Turkey.
Trill consonant
In phonetics, a trill is a consonantal sound produced by vibrations between the active articulator and passive articulator.
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TRT Kurdî
TRT Kurdî is the first national television station that broadcasts in the Kurdish dialect of Kurmanji and in Zazaki.
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Tunceli Province
Tunceli Province (Tunceli ili), formerly Dersim Province (Parêzgeha Dêrsim; Dêsim wilayet), is a province in the Eastern Anatolia Region of Turkey.
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Turkey
Turkey, officially the Republic of Türkiye, is a country mainly in Anatolia in West Asia, with a smaller part called East Thrace in Southeast Europe.
Turkish language
Turkish (Türkçe, Türk dili also Türkiye Türkçesi 'Turkish of Turkey') is the most widely spoken of the Turkic languages, with around 90 to 100 million speakers. Zaza language and Turkish language are languages of Turkey.
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U
U, or u, is the twenty-first letter and the fifth vowel letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet and the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide.
UNESCO
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO; pronounced) is a specialized agency of the United Nations (UN) with the aim of promoting world peace and security through international cooperation in education, arts, sciences and culture.
Uvular consonant
Uvulars are consonants articulated with the back of the tongue against or near the uvula, that is, further back in the mouth than velar consonants.
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V
V, or v, is the twenty-second letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide.
Vafsi dialect
Vafsi (Tati: ووسی, Vowsi) is a dialect of the Tati language spoken in the Vafs village and surrounding area in the Markazi province of Iran. Zaza language and Vafsi dialect are northwestern Iranian languages.
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Varto
Varto (Gimgim, or ՎԱՐԴՈ,Varto) is a town in Muş Province, Turkey.
Velar consonant
Velars are consonants articulated with the back part of the tongue (the dorsum) against the soft palate, the back part of the roof of the mouth (also known as the "velum").
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Velarization
Velarization or velarisation is a secondary articulation of consonants by which the back of the tongue is raised toward the velum during the articulation of the consonant.
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Voice (phonetics)
Voice or voicing is a term used in phonetics and phonology to characterize speech sounds (usually consonants).
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W
W, or w, is the twenty-third letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide.
Western Iranian languages
The Western Iranian languages or Western Iranic languages are a branch of the Iranian languages, attested from the time of Old Persian (6th century BC) and Median.
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X
X, or x, is the twenty-fourth letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide.
Y
Y, or y, is the twenty-fifth and penultimate letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide.
Yayladere
Yayladere (Xolxol) is a town and seat of Yayladere District of Bingöl Province in Turkey.
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Z
Z, or z, is the twenty-sixth and last letter of the Latin alphabet.
Zaza language
Zaza or Zazaki is a Northwestern Iranian language spoken primarily in eastern Turkey by the Zazas, who are commonly considered as Kurds, and in many cases identify as such. Zaza language and Zaza language are languages of Kurdistan, languages of Turkey, northwestern Iranian languages, Vulnerable languages and Zazas.
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Zaza nationalism
Zaza nationalism is an ideology that supports the preservation of Zaza people between Turks and Kurds in Turkey. Zaza language and Zaza nationalism are Zazas.
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Zaza–Gorani languages
Zaza–Gorani is a Kurdic linguistic subgroup of Northwestern Iranian languages. Zaza language and Zaza–Gorani languages are languages of Kurdistan, languages of Turkey, northwestern Iranian languages and Zazas.
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Zazas
The Zazas (p or Şarê Ma|Goranî|lit.
1980 Turkish coup d'état
The 1980 Turkish coup d'état (lit), headed by Chief of the General Staff General Kenan Evren, was the third coup d'état in the history of the Republic of Turkey, the previous having been the 1960 coup and the 1971 coup by memorandum.
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2016 Turkish coup attempt
On 15 July 2016, a faction within the Turkish Armed Forces, organized as the Peace at Home Council, attempted a coup d'état against state institutions, including the government and president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.
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See also
Languages of Kurdistan
- Arabic
- Armenian language
- Central Neo-Aramaic
- Gorani language
- Inter-Zab Jewish Neo-Aramaic
- Jewish Neo-Aramaic dialect of Barzani
- Jewish Neo-Aramaic dialect of Betanure
- Jewish Neo-Aramaic dialect of Urmia
- Jewish Neo-Aramaic dialect of Zakho
- Judeo-Aramaic languages
- Kordali language
- Kurdish language
- Kurmanji
- Laki language
- Mlaḥsô language
- Neo-Aramaic dialect of Bohtan
- Neo-Aramaic dialect of Hertevin
- Shabaki language
- Sorani
- Southern Kurdish
- Suret language
- Syriac language
- Trans-Zab Jewish Neo-Aramaic
- Turoyo language
- Zaza language
- Zaza–Gorani languages
Northwestern Iranian languages
- Abduyi dialect
- Alviri-Vidari dialect
- Balochi language
- Caspian languages
- Daylami language
- Eastern Gilaki
- Galeshi
- Gilaki language
- Gorani language
- Gorgani language
- Gozarkhani language
- Harzandi dialect
- Kajali language
- Karan language
- Karingani language
- Kho'ini dialect
- Khunsari language
- Kilit dialect
- Koroshi dialect
- Korouni dialect
- Kurdish language
- Lasgerdi language
- Maraghei dialect
- Mazanderani language
- Median language
- Old Azeri
- Parthian language
- Razajerdi language
- Razi dialect
- Sangsari language
- Semnani language
- Semnani languages
- Shabaki language
- Shahrudi language
- Sivandi language
- Sorkhei language
- Talysh language
- Tati language (Iran)
- Tatoid dialects
- Vafsi dialect
- Western Gilaki
- Zaza language
- Zaza–Gorani languages
- Zoroastrian Dari language
Zazas
- Democracy Time Party
- Lolan (tribe)
- Zaza language
- Zaza nationalism
- Zaza people
- Zaza–Gorani languages
- Zazas
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zaza_language
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