What is Zaza people?
{{Infobox ethnic group | group = Zazas | image = Iranian tongues.svg | image_caption = Geographic distribution of Zaza speakers (darker green) among Iranian speakers{{sfn|Gippert|1999}} | pop = 2 to 3 million{{sfnp|Endangered Language Alliance}} | popplace = {{flag|Turkey}}<br />'''Diaspora''': Approx. 300,000{{sfnp|Asatrian|1995}}<br />[[Australia]], [[Austria]], [[Belgium]], [[France]], [[Germany]], [[Netherlands]], [[Sweden]], [[Switzerland]], [[United Kingdom]], [[United States]]{{sfnp|Ziflioğlu|2011}}{{sfnp|Arakelova|1999|p=400}} | rels = Predominantly [[Alevism]] and minority [[Sunni Islam]]{{sfnp|Kehl-Bodrogi|Otter-Beaujean|Kellner-Heikele|1997|p=13}} and [[Hanafi]]sm | langs = [[Zaza language|Zaza]], [[Kurdish languages|Kurmanji Kurdish]],{{sfnp|Ziflioğlu|2011}} and [[Turkish language|Turkish]] | related = | native_name = | native_name_lang = | flag = }} The '''Zazas''' (also known as '''Kird''', '''Kirmanc''' or '''Dimili'''){{sfnp|Malmîsanij|1996|p=1}} are an Iranian people in eastern Turkey who traditionally speak the Zaza language, a western Iranian language written in the Latin script. Their heartland consists of Tunceli and Bingöl provinces and parts of Elazığ, Erzincan and Diyarbakır provinces.{{sfnp|Asatrian|1995}} Following the 1980 Turkish coup d'état, many intellectual minorities, including Zazas, emigrated from Turkey towards Europe, Australia and the United States. The largest part of the Zaza diaspora is in Europe, predominantly in Germany.{{sfnp|Arakelova|1999|p=400}} == Etymology and naming == According to ''[[Encyclopædia Iranica]]'' the [[Endonym and exonym|endonym]] ''Dimlī'' or ''Dīmla'' was derived from [[Daylam]] region in Northern Iran, and appears in Armenian historical records as ''delmik'', ''dlmik'', which was proposed to be derived from [[Middle Iranian]] ''*dēlmīk'' meaning [[Daylamites|Daylamite]]. Among their neighbors the people are known mainly as Zāzā, which meant “[[Stu