Indo-European · ISO 639-3 diq
Dimli Language Dimilkî
Dimli is an Indo-European language spoken by about 1.6 million people in 1 country. It is written in the Latin script.
Where Dimli is spoken
- Official language
- Regional official
- Spoken by 10%+
- 1–10%
- Smaller communities
Countries that speak Dimli
Language family
- Indo-European
- Classical Indo-European
- Indo-Iranian
- Iranian-Nuristani
- Iranian
- Central Iranian PBS
- Central Iranian PB
- Northwestern Iranian
- Adharic
- Zaza
- Dimli
Writing system
Latin script
Related languages
About the Dimli language
Dimli (Dimilkî) is spoken by about 1.6 million people, which makes it the 351st most spoken language in the world — just behind Acoli (1.6 million) and ahead of Central-Eastern Niger Fulfulde (1.6 million). It belongs to the Indo-European language family and, more precisely, to the Zaza group within the Indo-Iranian branch.
Where is Dimli spoken?
Dimli is used in 1 country. The largest communities live in Türkiye (1.6 million).
Dimli is not a national official language anywhere.
Writing system and status
Dimli is written in the Latin script. Glottolog classifies it as threatened, meaning fewer children learn it than in the past.
Its closest relatives in the same branch of the family are Gurani, Talysh, Northern Kurdish, Central Kurdish, Mazanderani, Gilaki and 2 more.
ISO codes: ISO 639-3 diq.
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Data: Languages of the World dataset (MIT) — ISO 639-3, Glottolog (CC BY 4.0), Unicode CLDR, Google LinguaMeta (CC BY 4.0) and Wikidata; country lists: samayo/country-json (MIT). Speaker numbers include first- and second-language speakers where sources report them.