Bajelani dialect
| Bajelani | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Iraq |
Native speakers | (20,000 cited 1976)[1] |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 |
bjm |
| Glottolog |
baje1238[2] |
Bajelani is a Gorani Kurdish dialect spoken by the Kurdish community in Iraq (Iraqi Kurdistan),[3] including the Bajalan tribe. It is linguistically close to Shabaki, Hawrami and Sarli dialects. Many speakers have been displaced since the 1980s.
References
- ↑ Bajelani at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Bajelani". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- ↑ "KURDISH TRIBES – Encyclopaedia Iranica". Iranicaonline.org. Retrieved 2016-05-12.
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