Zazaki alphabet
The Zazaki alphabet is an extension of the Latin alphabet used to write the Zaza language , consisting of 32 letters, seven of which (Ç, Ğ, I, İ, Ü, Ş, and Ê) for the phonetic requirements of the language have been modified from their Latin originals.
Letters
The letters of the Zazaki alphabet are:
| Capital letter | A. | B. | C. | Ç | D. | E. | Ê | F. | G | G | H | I. | İ | J | K | L. | M. | N | O | P | Q | R. | S. | Ş | T | U | Û | V | W. | X | Y | Z |
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| lowercase letters | a | b | c | ç | d | e | ê | f | G | G | H | ı | i | j | k | l | m | n | O | p | q | r | s | ş | t | u | û | v | w | x | y | z |
| IPA phonemes | ɑ | b | dz dʒ |
ts tʃ |
d | ɛ (beginning or middle tone) ə (ending sound in feminine words such as nouns, adjectives and pronouns) |
e | f | G | ʁ | H | ɪ | i | ʒ | k | l ɫ |
m | n | O | p | q | ɾ ř |
s | ʃ | t | u | ʉ | v | w | x | j | z |
history
The Zazaki language was written using a Persian form of the Arabic script in Ahmad al-Hasi's work Mewlıdê Nebi (Blessing of the Prophet) in 1899. After that, another Zaza writer, Osman Esad Efendi , wrote his work called Biyayışê "Nebi (Birth of the Prophet) in Arabic script in 1903. After the 1980s, the American philologist CM Jacobson created an alphabet for the Zaza language and this alphabet, which was called the Jacobson alphabet and is widely used for Zazaki.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Zazaki Latin alphabet . In: geocities.ws .
- ↑ Zazaki.de alphabet . In: Keskin-Zazacadakialfabesorunu.pdf .
- ↑ Zaza language, alphabet and pronunciation (English)
- ↑ Zazaki alphabet . In: alfabezazaki .