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Ethnologue > Web version > Country index > Asia > Iraq > Shabak

Shabak

A language of Iraq

ISO 639-3sdb

Population  15,000 (Blau 1989).
Region  North of Mosul, Ali Rach, Yangija, Khazna, Talara villages; many displaced since 1980’s.
Dialects  In the Gurani [hac] (Gorani) and Zaza group. Closely related to Gurani, Sarli [sdf], Bajelani [bjm].
Classification  Indo-European, Indo-Iranian, Iranian, Western, Northwestern, Zaza-Gorani
Comments  Agriculturalists. Muslim.