Shabaki language

Shabaki is an Indo-Iranian language and belongs to the subgroup Zaza-Gorani^{[note 1]} of the Northwestern Iranian languages. The Shabaki language is spoken by the Shabak people^[6][7] in the Mosul region of northern Iraq. It is a subdialect of the Kurdish dialect Gorani.^[8][9][10] alongside Hewrami, Sarli, and Bajalan. It also been influenced by Arabic, Turkish and Persian language.^[5][11] The number of speakers of Shabaki was estimated in 1989 to be between 10,000 and 20,000.^[12] Currently, the number of native speakers of Shabaki is estimated at 250,000.^[13] As Shabaki is one of the Zaza–Gorani languages, it is most similar to other Dialects of Gorani; Hewrami Bajelani, Sarli. and to Zazaki.

Shabaki
شەبەکی
Native to	Iraq
Region	Mosul
Ethnicity	Shabaks
Native speakers	250,000 (2018)[1]
Language family	Indo-European Indo-Iranian Iranian Western Northwestern I Zaza–Gorani[2][3] Gorani Shabaki
Language codes
ISO 639-3	sdb
Glottolog	shab1251

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.^[14]

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

1. ^[2][3][4][5]

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)
  • Encyclopedia of language & linguistics, Band 2