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=== Sarli === '''Sarli''' is spoken in northern Iraq by a cluster of villages<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZbPXAAAAMAAJ&q=sarli|title=Mullas, Sufis and Heretics: The Role of Religion in Kurdish Society : Collected Articles|last=Bruinessen|first=Martin Van|date=2000-01-01|publisher=Isis Press|isbn=9789754281620|pages=20|language=en}}</ref> north of the [[Little Zab]] river,<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=o1NsBAAAQBAJ&dq=sarli+iraq&pg=PA329|title=Iraq & The Persian Gulf|last=Division|first=Naval Intelligence|date=2014-09-03 |publisher=Routledge|isbn=9781136892660|pages=329|language=en}}</ref> on the confluence of the [[Khazir River]] and the [[Great Zab]] river, just west-northwest of the city of [[Kirkuk]].<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-lEHAQAAIAAJ&q=sarli|title=Proceedings of the Twenty-Third International Congress of Orientalists, Cambridge, 21st-28th August, 1954|last=Sinor|first=Denis|date=1956-01-01|publisher=Royal Asiatic Society|pages=178|language=en}}</ref> It has fewer than 20,000 speakers.<ref name="Sdf">{{Cite web|url=https://www.ethnologue.com/25/language/sdf/|title=Sarli|publisher=Ethnologue|access-date=7 November 2023}}</ref> Many speakers have been displaced by conflicts in the region.<ref name=":0">{{Cite news|url=https://www.ethnologue.com/language/sdf|title=Sarli|work=Ethnologue|access-date=2017-03-04}}</ref> It is reportedly most similar to [[Bajelani dialect|Bajelani]]<ref name=":0" /> but is also similar to [[Shabaki dialect|Shabaki]].<ref name=":1">{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZbPXAAAAMAAJ&q=sarli|title=Mullas, Sufis and Heretics: The Role of Religion in Kurdish Society : Collected Articles|last=Bruinessen|first=Martin Van|date=2000-01-01|publisher=Isis Press|isbn=9789754281620|pages=300|language=en}}</ref> It contains [[Kurdish languages|Kurdish]], [[Turkish language|Turkish]] and [[Persian language|Persian]] influences, like its neighbours Bajelani and Shabaki.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4N3mAAAAMAAJ&q=sarli+language|title=Question de la frontière entre la Turquie et l'Irak|last1=Nations|first1=League of|last2=Wirsén|first2=Einar Thure af|date=1925-01-01|publisher=Imprimeries réunies, s.a.|language=fr}}</ref>
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