Bajelani language

Bajelani
Bajelani
Native to	Iraq
Native speakers	(20,000 cited 1976)
Language family	Indo-European Indo-Iranian Iranian Western Northwestern I Zaza-Gorani Gorani Bajelani; ; ; ; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	bjm
Glottolog	baje1238
ELP	Bajelani

Bajelani is a Gorani Kurdish dialect spoken by the Kurdish community in Iraq (Iraqi Kurdistan),^[2] 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) (subscription required)
^ "KURDISH TRIBES – Encyclopaedia Iranica". Iranicaonline.org. Retrieved 2016-05-12.

External links

Bajalan.com (NOTE: mostly in Arabic)

[e18-1] Bajelani at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)

[2] "KURDISH TRIBES – Encyclopaedia Iranica". Iranicaonline.org. Retrieved 2016-05-12.

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