Zazas
Şarê ma | |
|---|---|
Zaza workers in Diyarbekir, 1881 | |
| Total population | |
| 2 to 3 million | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
| Turkey Diaspora: approx. 300,000 Australia, Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Netherlands, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States | |
| Languages | |
| Zaza, Kurmanji Kurdish, and Turkish | |
| Religion | |
| Majority: Sunni Islam (Shafi'i majority, large Hanafi minority) Significant minority: Alevism |
The Zazas (Zazaki: Şarê ma, lit. 'Our people'), also known as Kird, Kirmanc, or Dimili, are an Iranian people who speak Zazaki, a language of the Indo-European language family. They mostly live in the Eastern Anatolia and Southeastern Anatolia regions of Turkey. Zazas generally consider themselves Kurds, and are often described as Zaza Kurds by scholars.