Shabaki

Shabaki ; شەبەکی
Spoken in	Iraq
speaker	250,000 (2018)
Linguistic ; classification	Iranian languages Western Iranian languages Northwest Iranian languages Zaza-Gorani Shabaki ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	sdb

Shabaki is a modern Iranian language classified by linguists as a dialect of the Zaza-Gorani group within the northwest Iranian languages. Shabaki is spoken by the Shabak , an ethnic group living in the disputed areas of northern Iraq .

The language has similarities with Hawrami, another Zaza Gorani dialect. Shabaki also has Persian , Turkish and Arabic elements.

Shabaki is not a written language. There are attempts to introduce the Arabic alphabet and the Latin script for the Shabaki. According to estimates, there were between 10,000 and 20,000 Schabaki speakers in 1989. According to the ethnic group's own estimates, the number of Shabaks was 350,000 to 400,000 in 2016, although it is unclear how many of them speak Shabaki.

grammar

Schabaki is a subject-object-verb language (SOV).

Function verbs examples:

Shabaki	German
kar	do / do
bada	give
pek	hit / hit
bastan	to buy
boron	eat
bror	bring out / lift
bakes	pull

Sometimes completely different verbs result if you put a certain word in front of a verb.

Examples:

Shabaki	German	Result in German
çam pek	"Eye" + "hit / hit"	= look at
garm kar	"Warm / hot" + "make / do"	= heat / cook
re kar	"Road" + "do / do"	= go

literature

Abbas Sultan: Shabaki-English Dictionary. Dar Al-mahaja Al-Baydhaa, Beirut 2016
Abbas Sultan: An Account of Light verb constructions in Shabaki. In: Acta Linguistica , Vol. 5, No. 2, 2011, pp. 36-56
Abbas Sultan: An Account of Clitics in Shabaki with Reference to Wackernagel's Law. In: Global Journal of Human-Social Science: Linguistics & Education, Vol. 14, No. 1, 2014
Abbas Sultan: Serial verb constructions in Shabaki. In: Acta Linguistica , January 2011, pp. 27-47
Abbas Sultan: Reciprocal Pronouns in Shabaki. In: Acta Linguistica, Vol. 4, No. 1, 2010, pp. 35-53
Abbas Sultan: Causatives in Shabaki. In: Acta Linguistica , Vol. 4, No. 2, 2010, pp. 79-88
Abbas Sultan: An Account of Epistemic Modality in Shabaki.
Abbas Sultan: The truth conditional content of evidentials in Shabaki. In: Kufa Review , 2015
Abbas Sultan: Shabaki alphabets. January 2015 (proposal for a Latin script for Shabaki)

Web links

Individual evidence

↑ Shabak . Ethnologue , accessed August 30, 2019
↑ SIL International https://iso639-3.sil.org/code/sdb
^ Shabak - Minority Rights Group . In: Minority Rights Group . ( minorityrights.org [accessed October 21, 2018]).
↑ Abbas Sultan, 2016, p. 2
↑ Shabaki language, alphabet and pronunciation. Retrieved October 21, 2018 .
↑ United States Department of State, 2016 Report on International Religious Freedom - Iraq. August 15, 2017, p. 3
↑ ^a ^b ^c Abbas Sultan: An Account of Light verb constructions in Shabaki, 2011
↑ ^a ^b ^c Abbas Sultan: Causatives in Shabaki, 2010

[1] Shabak . Ethnologue , accessed August 30, 2019

[2] SIL International https://iso639-3.sil.org/code/sdb

[3] Shabak - Minority Rights Group . In: Minority Rights Group . ( minorityrights.org [accessed October 21, 2018]).

[4] Abbas Sultan, 2016, p. 2

[:0-5] Shabaki language, alphabet and pronunciation. Retrieved October 21, 2018 .

[6] United States Department of State, 2016 Report on International Religious Freedom - Iraq. August 15, 2017, p. 3

[:4-7] Abbas Sultan: An Account of Light verb constructions in Shabaki, 2011

[:5-8] Abbas Sultan: Causatives in Shabaki, 2010