- Zangana
:For other usages, see
Zengana (disambiguation) The Zangana (Kurdish: "Zengene") are a branch of southern Kurds and a tribal confederation of the Shabaks of Northern Iraq. They have historically lived southeast of
Kirkuk and nearKhanaqin . [ Michiel Leezenberg, ILLC- Department of Philosophy, University of Amsterdam, "Gorani Influence on Central Kurdish" [http://www.cogsci.ed.ac.uk/~siamakr/Kurdish/Papers/Leezenberg93/sec1.html] ] and Kifri. Alternatively, they have been associated with theSulaymaniyah area. [ReliefWeb, "Sulaymaniyah Governnorate assessment report," August 31, 2006, http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900SID/LSGZ-6VRD5U?OpenDocument] There are also Zanganas around Kirmanshah. Their religion branch isSunni Islam . [Michiel Leezenberg, ILLC- Department of Philosophy, University of Amsterdam, "Gorani Influence on Central Kurdish" [http://www.cogsci.ed.ac.uk/~siamakr/Kurdish/Papers/Leezenberg93/sec1.html] ]They speak a distinct dialect that is related to
Hawrami . However, in recent years they have linguistically assimilated into the language practice ofSorani speakers in the area in which they live. [Michiel Leezenberg, ILLC- Department of Philosophy, University of Amsterdam, "Gorani Influence on Central Kurdish" [http://www.cogsci.ed.ac.uk/~siamakr/Kurdish/Papers/Leezenberg93/sec1.html] ]The settlement patterns of the people have shifted since the late 1980s. The Saddam Hussein regime relocated them in the
Al-Anfal Campaign of 1988; also, in the course of the refugee dislocations of 1991 the Zengana people relocated. [Michiel Leezenberg, ILLC- Department of Philosophy, University of Amsterdam, "Gorani Influence on Central Kurdish" [http://www.cogsci.ed.ac.uk/~siamakr/Kurdish/Papers/Leezenberg93/sec1.html] ]
=Additional reference=
*Cecil J. Edmonds , "Kurds, Turks and Arabs: Politics, Travel and Research in North-Eastern Iraq, 1919-1925," London, 1957.References
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