"Zazaki" Natural Recordings by Native Speakers
Zazaki, also known as Zaza or Dimli, is a language spoken primarily in southeastern Turkey and northern Iraq. It belongs to the southwestern Iranian branch of the Iranian languages and is the largest non-Oghuz language in Turkey.
There are approximately 500,000 Zazaki speakers living in Turkey and 50,000 speakers in northern Iraq. The language is spoken mainly by the Zaza people, an ethnic group that has its own distinct culture and traditions.
Zazaki is not an Indo-European language like most European languages, but rather a member of the Iranian language family, which is a branch of the Indo-European language family.
The word "zayin" refers to the seventh letter of the Hebrew alphabet. It is written in Hebrew as ז and is represented by the sound /z/ or sometimes /zˠ/ (a voiceless alveolar fricative in Modern Hebrew, but a voiced alveolar fricative in medieval pronunciation).