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İstanbul Municipality opens Zaza language courses

İstanbul Municipality opens Zaza language courses

This is the first time Zaza language courses will be offered in İstanbul by the municipality.

Language death, language suicide and Zaza language

ONE CENTURY, ONE REGIME AND MOTHER TONGUE | ZAZA LANGUAGE

Language death, language suicide and Zaza language

The Zaza language can hold onto life and continue to live. We should not forget that we will lose our soul together with our language if this does not happen.

22 February 2023 Ercan Çağlayan

One century, one regime, and the right to mother tongue

FEBRUARY 21 MOTHER LANGUAGE DAY

One century, one regime, and the right to mother tongue

As bianet, on International Mother Language Day, we want to explore the state of mother language as we enter the 100th year of the Republic. In this series of articles, we tracked the traces of the policies pursued with regard to language such as Zaza, Georgian, Armenian and Kurdish.

21 February 2023

Study: Younger Zazas in Dersim reluctant to learn Zaza language, increasingly identify as 'Turks'

Study: Younger Zazas in Dersim reluctant to learn Zaza language, increasingly identify as 'Turks'

"The oldest generation is monolingual and this language is the Zaza language. The middle-aged generation, who learned the second language mainly at school, are bilingual. The younger generation are again monolingual but this language is Turkish," says Dr. Güntaş-Aldatmaz.

1 March 2021 Evrim Kepenek