Zazalar
Also known as Zazas
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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