Native to Iraq ISO 639-3 sdb | Region Mosul Glottolog shab1251 | |
Native speakers (10,000–20,000 cited 1989) Language family Indo-European
Indo-Iranian
Iranian
Western
Northwestern I
Zaza–Gorani
Gorani
Shabaki | ||
Shabaki is a dialect of the Indo-Iranian language Gorani spoken by the Shabak Kurds in Mosul, Iraq. The number of speakers of Shabaki was estimated in 1989 to be between 10,000 and 20,000.
As Shabaki is one of the Zaza–Gorani languages, it is most similar to languages like Gorani (Hewrami) dialects and Zazaki. Because Zaza–Gorani belongs to the Northwestern Iranian branch, it also has similarities to Kurdish languages:
References
Shabaki dialect Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA