Zangana (tribe) explained

Zangana (Kurdish: Zengene/زەنگەنە) is a Kurdish tribe in Kermanshah province and some parts of Iraqi Kurdistan.^{[1] [2]} They speak a distinct dialect. However, in recent years they have linguistically assimilated into the language practice of Sorani speakers in the area in which they live.^[3]

Settlements

The settlement patterns of the people have shifted since the late 1980s. The Saddam Hussein regime relocated them in the Al-Anfal Campaign of 1988; also, in the course of the refugee dislocations of 1991 the Zangana people relocated.

Notes

• Cecil J. Edmonds, Kurds, Turks and Arabs: Politics, Travel and Research in North-Eastern Iraq, 1919-1925, London, 1957.
• Yamaguchi . Akihiko . Mediating between the Royal Court and the Periphery: The Zangana Family’s Brokerage in Safavid Iran (1501–1722) . Iran: Journal of the British Institute of Persian Studies . 2023 . 10.1080/05786967.2023.2170814.

Notes and References

1. Web site: KURDISH TRIBES – Encyclopaedia Iranica. electricpulp.com. www.iranicaonline.org.
2. Web site: https://web.archive.org/web/20170210210211/http://af.samta.ir/atlas/index.php?title=%D9%86%DA%98%D8%A7%D8%AF_%D9%88_%D8%AA%DB%8C%D8%B1%D9%87_%D8%AF%D8%B1_%D8%A7%D8%B3%D8%AA%D8%A7%D9%86_%DA%A9%D8%B1%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%B4%D8%A7%D9%87. نژاد و تیره در استان کرمانشاه - ویکی اطلس فرهنگی ایران. 10 February 2017. af.samta.ir.
3. Michiel Leezenberg, ILLC- Department of Philosophy, University of Amsterdam, "Gorani Influence on Central Kurdish" http://www.cogsci.ed.ac.uk/~siamakr/Kurdish/Papers/Leezenberg93/sec1.html