Zazaki
This page documents available resources in Zazaki.
Git repo: https://github.swarthmore.edu/Ling073-sp26/ling073-zza-corpus
External resources
Computational Resources
Machine Translator
Description: A machine translator API that could translate English to Zazaki.
Link: https://www.stars21.com/translator/english/zaza/
License: © Stars21.com - All Rights Reserved
Alibaba Translator API
Description: A machine translator API that could translate English to Zazaki.
Link: https://translate.alibaba.com/
License: Copyright 1999-2019 Alibaba. All Rights Reserved
A Corpus for the Zazaki and Gorani languages
Description: This corpus has been used to train neural machine translation models.
Link: https://github.com/sinaahmadi/ZazaGoraniCorpus
License: Open Source, under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License
Kurdish Language Processing Toolkit
Description: KLPT is a natural language processing (NLP) toolkit in Python that includes modules for tokenization, stemming, and transliteration that can be adapted for Zazaki.
Link: https://github.com/sinaahmadi/klpt
Open Source, under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License
Dictionaries/Phrasebooks/Glossaries
Zazaki Phrasebook
Description: A travel guide that translates common phrases to Zazaki.
Link: https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Zaza_phrasebook
License: open source
Zaza-English/ English-Zaza Dictionary & Phrasebook: A Language of Turkey
Description: This bilingual guide offers essential vocabulary and phrases for learning Zazaki.
Link: https://search.worldcat.org/title/1485357230
License: All rights reserved
(requested through Interlibrary, we may request Swarthmore to purchase it.)
Grammatical Descriptions
Text discourse features in Southern Zazaki
Description: This work analyzes Southern Zazaki folktales to identify unique discourse features.
Link: https://www.scribd.com/document/375135300/Werner-Eberhard-Text-Discourse-Zazaki
License: All rights reserved (a paper, so add a citation?)
Studies in Zazaki grammar by Michael J. Kenstowicz
Description: this collection provides structural analyses of Zazaki, focusing on its unique phonological and syntactic features.
License: All rights reserved, can be borrowed from Harvard, borrow it here: https://search.worldcat.org/title/156948699 (request sent)
A grammar of Dimili, also known as Zaza, by Terry Lynne Todd
Description: This work provides a detailed grammatical analysis of the Zaza language/
Link: https://www.dimilki.net/yonetim_paneli/my_documents/my_files/A%20Grammar%20of%20Dimili,Terry%20Lynn%20Todd,1985.pdf
License: All rights reserved, can be borrowed (request sent)
Scientific Works
Vızêr ra Ewro Istanıkê Zazayan - Zaza Folktales, Then and Now
Description: This book contains twelve folk tales and two anecdotes from the Zaza culture.
Link: https://zazaki.de/files/Mahmesa-Komplettbuch.pdf
License: All rights reserved
Corpora
Zazaki learning games
Description: This website provides many games to learn Zazaki
Link: https://www.digitaldialects.com/Zazaki.htm
License: All rights reserved
Buhaya Kîloya Mastî - Price of a Kilogram of Yogurt
Description: An article in Zazaki on the website that promotes the language
Link: https://www.zazaki.net/kurmanci/buhaya-kiloya-masti-2983.htm
License: All rights reserved
Developed resources
Keyboard layout
An IBus keyboard layout for Zazaki based on the Turkish-Q layout, extended to support the full Zazaki alphabet including the circumflexed vowels ‹ê›, ‹î›, and ‹û›.
Grammar Documentation
A grammar documentation for Zazaki, including the main parts of speech, alternations, and systems.
Ambiguity Resolution
Contrastive Grammar
Morphological analyser
A morphological analyser for Zazaki. Check:
