Shabak language
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| Shabaki Shabaki |
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| Spoken in: | Iraq | |
| Region: | Mosul | |
| Total speakers: | About 100,000 | |
| Language family: | Indo-European Indo-Iranian Iranian Western Northwestern Zaza-Gorani Shabaki |
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| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-1: | none | |
| ISO 639-2: | ira | |
| ISO 639-3: | sdb | |
| Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. | ||
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. [1]
In 1989 an estimate of speakers of Shabaki was put between 10,000 and 20,000.[1]
