Native to Iraq ISO 639-3 sdf | Region Kirkuk Province Glottolog sarl1241 | |
Native speakers (undated figure of fewer than 20,000) Language family Indo-European
Indo-Iranian
Iranian
Western
Northwestern I
Zaza–Gorani
Gorani
Sarli | ||
Sarli, or Sarliya, is a dialect of the Indo-Iranian language Gorani spoken in Iraq. It is spoken by a cluster of villages north of the Little Zab river, specifically on the confluence of the Khazir River and the Great Zab river, just west-northwest of the city of Kirkuk. Many speakers have been displaced by conflicts in the region.
It has no known dialects and reportedly is most similar to Bajelani, but it is also similar to Shabaki. The Sarli language contains Kurdish, Turkish and Persian influences like its neighbours Bajelani and Shabaki.
The Sarli speakers follow their own branch of Yarsanism.
References
Sarli dialect Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA