Zaza
Also known as Zazas
The Zazas (), are an Iranian people who speak Zaza, an Iranian language belonging to the Indo-European language family. Zazas live primarily in the Eastern Anatolia and Southeastern Anatolia regions of Turkey. They live in parts of Bingöl, Elazığ, Erzincan, Erzurum, Malatya, Muş, Bitlis and Tunceli provinces in Eastern Anatolia and Adıyaman, Diyarbakır and Şanlıurfa provinces in Southeastern Anatolia. There are also found Zaza communities in provinces such as Kars and Ardahan in Northeastern Anatolia, Kayseri, Sivas and Aksaray in Central Anatolia and Tokat and Gümüşhane in Black Sea regions o
AI overview
The Zazas are an Iranian ethnic group primarily living in eastern and southeastern Turkey who speak Zaza, their own Iranian language within the Indo-European language family. They inhabit multiple provinces across several regions of Turkey, making them a significant minority population in Anatolia with a distinct linguistic and cultural identity.
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Key facts
- Ethnic group.group
- Zazas
- Ethnic group.image
- Diyarbekir Zazas collage.jpg
- Ethnic group.image_caption
- Zaza men (top) and women (bottom) in Diyarbekir during the Ottoman period, 1881
- Ethnic group.pop
- 2 to 3 million
- Ethnic group.popplace
- TurkeyDiaspora: 300,000Australia, Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Netherlands, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States
- Ethnic group.rels
- Majority: Sunni Islam(Shafi'i majority, large Hanafi minority)Significant minority: Alevism
- Ethnic group.langs
- Zaza, Kurmanji Kurdish, and Turkish
- Ethnic group.native_name_lang
- diq
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Population
- 3200000
- Image
- Zaza woman.jpg
Article · Español
Los zaza o dimilis son una etnia irania minoritaria del este de Anatolia, Viven principalmente en las provincias orientales de Anatolia, como Adıyaman, Aksaray, Batman, Bingöl, Diyarbakır, Elazığ, Erzurum, Erzincan, Gumushane, Kars, Malatya, Mus, Sanliurfa, Sivas, y Tunceli. La cultura zaza y su idioma muestran algunas similitudes con otros pueblos iranios, como los guilakíes, kurdos, mazandaraníes, persas y otros. Los zazas son musulmánes y se dividen en dos ramas del islam; sunismo y aleví. Los zazas sunitas viven en el centro y sur de la geografía zaza y la fracción aleví vive en el norte de la geografía.
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