Distribution of Western Iranian languages not using personal enclitics and those who also the participle ant-, based on Windfuhr (2009)Endonym variants of Zazaki based on Dogan (2024)Plural endings in Kurmanji, Sorani, Southern Kurdish, Gorani and Zazaki.Distribution of attestations of the Dunbuli tribe, based on sources in the Kurdish articleZawzan el-Akrad, as defined by Yaqut al Hamawi and Ibn al Asir in James.Ottoman Waqf Document South of Diyarbakr attesting a Dimili tribal Khanedan belonging to a Hasan Agha. Ottoman Waqf trust in the mid-19th century.
The review by Zazakî scholar Mahir Dogan is a critique of Andranik, Dersim: Journey and Topography, Introduction, Translation and Commentary by Gohar G. Hakobian, Iran and the Caucasus Monographs, volume 1, Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2024, 315 pages. isbn: 978-90-04-67775-3 (hardback), 978-90-04-67776-0 (ebook, pdf).
Yıldız, Pınar. (2026). “Linguistic Variation in Dimili (Zazaki): A Descriptive Study of the Modan Dialect”. Mukaddime 17 (1): 267-305. https://doi.org/10.19059/mukaddime.1716712.
Dimilî exhibits significant dialect diversity due to geographical and historical factors. One of the less documented dialects is the Modan dialect, spoken in the Mutki/Modan district of Bitlis. This study provides a comprehensive description of the phonological and morphological characteristics of the Modan dialect based on fieldwork with native speakers.
Mohammadirad, Masoud, and Shuan Osman Karim. "The typology of verbal person/number syncretism in Western Iranic languages", Language Dynamics and Change 15, 1 (2025): 1-87, doi: https://doi.org/10.1163/22105832-bja10038
This article studies variability in the internal structure of verbal bound person-number paradigms within a sample of 174 Western Iranic language varieties. Twenty-one patterns of syncretism are found within the sample, highlighting the neutralization of opposition between cells in the inflectional person/number paradigm.
