Shabak language

Shabak language

language
name=Shabaki
nativename=Shabaki
states=Iraq
region= Mosul
speakers= About 100,000
familycolor=Indo-European
fam2=Indo-Iranian
fam3=Iranian
fam4=Western
fam5=Northwestern
fam6=Zaza-Gorani
iso2=ira
iso3=sdb|ld3=Shabaki|ll3=Shabaki

Shabaki is a language spoken by Shabak people in Mosul, Iraq. It is a part of the northwestern group of the Iranian section of the Indo-Iranian branch of the Indo-European family. [http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=sdb]

In 1989 an estimate of speakers of Shabaki was put between 10,000 and 20,000. [ [http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=sdb Ethnologue report for language code:sdb ] ]

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