Dımli
Zaza
MidtownCommunity Profile: The relatively small and scattered community of Kurdish speakers across the New York area comes together every year at Nawruz, held in recent years at the Armenian community's Hovnanian School in New Milford, near where some speakers live. Others are in Brooklyn and Manhattan. Unlike Nashville's large, concentrated community from Iraqi Kurdistan, Kurdish speakers in New York come from across the Kurdish world (including Syria, Turkey, Iran, Iraq) and speak highly distinct varieties not just Kurdish/Kurmanji, but also forms of Zaza, Sorani, and possibly Gorani.
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aza is a Northwest Iranic language, spoken in the east of modern Turkey by Kurdish and Alevi communities, with approximately 2 to 3 million speakers speaking distinct Northern and Southern varieties. Due to language policies in effect for over 50 years, both the number of Zaza speakers and the degree to which they use the language have been in sharp decline. Diaspora and refugee communities now exist throughout Europe, especially Germany, and there are now a small number of speakers in New York and New Jersey, including a few (like Endangered Language Alliance collaborator Zere Atmaca) who have worked as carriage drivers in Central Park. Read more here.
Note that the language above may be used throughout the New York area — this is just one significant site.