Shabaki is an Indo-Iranian language and belongs to the subgroup Zaza-Gorani of the

Northwestern 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. Languages The traditional Northwestern branch is a convention for non-Southweste ...

. The Shabaki language is spoken by the

Shabak people Shabaks (, ) are a group native to the Nineveh Plains in Iraq. Their origin is uncertain, although they are largely considered Kurds by scholars. They speak Shabaki, a branch of the Zaza–Gorani languages, one of the main Kurdish variants alon ...

in the

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region of northern

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. It is a subdialect of the Kurdish dialect Gorani. alongside Hewrami, Sarli, and

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. It also been influenced by

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, Turkish and

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language. The number of speakers of Shabaki was estimated in 1989 to be between 10,000 and 20,000.Ethnologue about Shabaki
/ref> Currently, the number of native speakers of Shabaki is estimated at 250,000. As Shabaki is one of the

Zaza–Gorani languages Zaza–Gorani is a Kurdic linguistic subgroup of Northwestern Iranian languages. They are usually classified as a non- Kurdish branch of the Northwestern Iranian languages but most of their speakers consider themselves ethnic Kurds. The Zaza– ...

, it is most similar to other Dialects of Gorani; Hewrami Bajelani, Sarli. and to Zazaki.

Status

The

fear the demise of the Shabaki language especially after the occupation of the ISIS terrorist groups to their home in Nineveh Plain, which led to the displacement of the majority of their population and the other groups residing in that area.

Comparison

Pronouns

Vocabulary

Notes

Literature

* Dr. Sultan, Abbas Hassan Jassim (

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, Iraq)
Shabaki - English Dictionary
or here a
PDF
(2016)
An Account of Light verb constructions in Shabaki
(Vol. 5 2011, 2)
An Account of Clitics in Shabaki with Reference to Wackernagel's Law
(2014)
Serial verb constructions in Shabaki

Reciprocal Pronouns in Shabaki
(Vol. 4 2010, 1)
Causatives in Shabaki
(Vol. 4 2010, 2)
An Account of Epistemic Modality in Shabaki

The truth conditional content of evidentials in Shabaki

Evidentials in Shabaki

Shabaki alphabets
or here a
Slideshow
* E. K. Brown, R. E. Asher, J. M. Y. Simpson (Elsevier, 2006)
Encyclopedia of language & linguistics, Band 2

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Shabaki Language Northwestern Iranian languages Languages of Iraq Languages of Kurdistan Shabak people