Shabaki language
Shabaki is an Indo-Iranian language and belongs to the subgroup Zaza-Gorani of the Northwestern Iranian languages. The Shabaki language is spoken by the Shabak people in the Mosul region of northern Iraq. It is a subdialect of the Kurdish dialect Gorani. alongside Hewrami, Sarli, and Bajalan. It also been influenced by Arabic, Turkish and Persian language. The number of speakers of Shabaki was estimated in 1989 to be between 10,000 and 20,000. Currently, the number of native speakers of Shabaki is estimated at 250,000. As Shabaki is one of the Zaza–Gorani languages, it is most similar to other Dialects of Gorani; Hewrami Bajelani, Sarli. and to Zazaki.
Status
The Shabak people fear the demise of the Shabaki language especially after the occupation of the ISIS terrorist groups to their home in Nineveh Plain, which led to the displacement of the majority of their population and the other groups residing in that area.
Comparison
Pronouns
| Shabaki | Zazaki | Southern Kurdish | Sorani | Kurmanji | Hewrami | Persian | English |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| emin-em | ez, min | mi/min | min | ez, min | emin, min | mən | I, me, mine, my |
| etu | ti, to | tu/tû | to | tu, te | eto, to | to, tu | thou, thee, thine |
| ew, îna | a, o | ew/ewe | ew | ew, wî, wê | ew | û | s/he, his, hers, him, her |
| hima-alama-gişt | ma | îme | ême | em, me | ma | ma | we, our |
| işma | şima | îwe | êwe | hûn, we | şima | şuma | you, your |
| işan | înu, înan | ewan/ewane | ewan | ewan, wan | ade | anha | they, them, their |
Vocabulary
| Shabaki | Zazaki | Southern Kurdish | Sorani Kurdish | Kurmanji Kurdish | Hewrami | Persian | English |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| çam | çim | çem/çew | çaw | çav | cem | çəşm/çişm | eye |
| ziwan | ziwan | ziwan | ziman | ziman | ziwan | zəban | tongue, language |
Notes
Literature
- Dr. Sultan, Abbas Hassan Jassim (University of Kufa, Iraq)
- Shabaki - English Dictionary or here as PDF (2016)
- An Account of Light verb constructions in Shabaki (Vol. 5 2011, 2)
- An Account of Clitics in Shabaki with Reference to Wackernagel's Law (2014)
- Serial verb constructions in Shabaki
- Reciprocal Pronouns in Shabaki (Vol. 4 2010, 1)
- Causatives in Shabaki (Vol. 4 2010, 2)
- An Account of Epistemic Modality in Shabaki
- The truth conditional content of evidentials in Shabaki
- Evidentials in Shabaki
- Shabaki alphabets or here as Slideshow
- E. K. Brown, R. E. Asher, J. M. Y. Simpson (Elsevier, 2006)