Shabaki language

{{Short description|Indo-Iranian language of Iraq}}

{{Infobox language

|name=Shabaki

|nativename=شەبەکی

|states=Iraq

|region=Mosul

|ethnicity=Shabaks

|speakers=250,000

|date=2018

|ref=e27

|familycolor=Indo-European

|fam2=Indo-Iranian

|fam3=Iranian

|fam4=Western

|fam5=Northwestern I

|fam6=Zaza–Gorani

|fam7=Gorani

|iso3=sdb

|glotto=shab1251

|glottorefname=Shabaki

}}

Shabaki is an Indo-Iranian language and belongs to the subgroup Zaza-Gorani{{#tag:ref|{{Cite news|url=https://www.ethnologue.com/subgroups/zaza-gorani|title=Zaza-Gorani|work=Ethnologue|access-date=2018-10-22|language=en}}{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AZGUEQmFqfMC&q=zaza+gorani+shabak+language&pg=PA564|title=A Survey of Word Accentual Patterns in the Languages of the World|last1=Hulst|first1=Harry van der|last2=Goedemans|first2=Rob|last3=Zanten|first3=Ellen van|date=2010|publisher=Walter de Gruyter|isbn=9783110196313|language=en}}{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YCEXDQAAQBAJ&q=shabaki+language&pg=PA40|title=From Baghdad on the Tigris to Baghdad on the Subway|last=Hindo|first=Walid A.|date=2016-09-08|publisher=Archway Publishing|isbn=9781480834033|language=en}}{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=i7hJDwAAQBAJ&q=shabaki+language&pg=PA287|title=Historical Dictionary of the Kurds|last=Gunter|first=Michael M.|date=2018-02-20|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield|isbn=9781538110508|language=en}}|group=note}} of the Northwestern Iranian languages. The Shabaki language is spoken by the Shabak peopleAbd al-Jabbar, Falih. Ayatollahs, sufis and ideologues: state, religion, and social movements in Iraq. University of Virginia 2008.Sykes, Mark. The Caliphs' last heritage: a short history of the Turkish Empire in the Mosul region of northern Iraq. It is a subdialect of the Kurdish dialect Gorani.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QLPnBgAAQBAJ&q=schabaki+sprache&pg=PT107|title=Die Stunde der Kurden: Wie sie den Nahen Osten verändern|last=Löwer|first=Hans-Joachim|date=2015-02-16|publisher=Styriabooks|isbn=9783990403549|language=de}}{{Cite web |title=Kurdland - Your gateway to Kurdistan |url=https://kurdland.net/english/history |access-date=2025-02-02 |website=Kurdland |language=en}}{{Cite journal |last=Shoukat |first=Ahmad |title=Al-Shabak Al-Kurd Al-Mansiyoun |journal=Ministry of Culture Printing Press |location=Sulaymaniyah |pages=48}} alongside Hewrami, Sarli, and Bajalan. It also been influenced by Arabic, Turkish and Persian language.{{Cite news|url=https://minorityrights.org/minorities/shabak/|title=Shabak - Minority Rights Group|work=Minority Rights Group|access-date=2018-10-22|language=en-GB}} The number of speakers of Shabaki was estimated in 1989 to be between 10,000 and 20,000.[http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=sdb Ethnologue about Shabaki] Currently, the number of native speakers of Shabaki is estimated at 250,000.{{Cite news|url=https://minorityrights.org/minorities/shabak/|title=Shabak - Minority Rights Group|work=Minority Rights Group|access-date=2018-10-27|language=en-GB}} As Shabaki is one of the Zaza–Gorani languages, it is most similar to other Dialects of Gorani; Hewrami Bajelani, Sarli. and to Zazaki.