Zazaki

High school (ages 12+)
People & Society

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1. What is the language family classification?Northwestern Iranian languages
2. What is the geographic distribution?Primarily Eastern Anatolia, Turkey (Zazaistan region)
3. How many people speak Zazaki?About 2 to 3 million people speak Zazaki, mostly in the eastern Anatolian region of Turkey.
4. Where is Zazaki spoken?Zazaki is mainly spoken in a part of Turkey called Zazaistan, which is in the eastern Anatolian region.

Linguistic Homogenization: The process by which languages become more similar, often due to the influence of dominant languages.
Oral Tradition: The passing down of knowledge, stories, and customs through spoken language rather than written records.
Ergative-Absolutive Alignment: A grammatical system where the subject of a transitive verb is marked differently from the subject of an intransitive verb.
Phonological Features: The distinct sounds and sound patterns that characterize a particular language.