Native to Iraq ISO 639-3 bjm | Native speakers (20,000 cited 1976) Glottolog baje1238 | |
Language family Indo-European
Indo-Iranian
Iranian
Western
Northwestern I
Zaza-Gorani
Gorani
Bajelani | ||
Bajelani is a Gorani Kurdish dialect spoken by the Kurdish community in Iraq (Iraqi Kurdistan), including the Bajalan tribe. It is linguistically close to Shabaki, Hawrami and Sarli dialects. Many speakers have been displaced since the 1980s.
References
Bajelani dialect Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA