%0 Journal Article
%T The Contributions of Zaza Language and Literature Departments of Bing£¿l and Munzur Universities to Their Universities
%A Hatip ERDO£¿MU£¿
%A £¿eyhmus ORK£¿N
%J -
%D 2018
%X It is estimated that there are around five million Zazas in Turkey living in various cities most of whom dwell in the districts of Bing£¿l and Tunceli. In this respect Zazaki should be accounted as the third widely spoken language of Turkey. In the last fifteen years many legal obstacles preventing people from teaching their mother tongues have been removed as the country is passing through a process of ¡°democratic expansion¡±. Since 2002 various attempts have been made and a series of changes have taken place as a result of European Union alignment framework. Zazaki like the other unofficial languages has benefitted from new regulations of ¡°the law related with the usage of traditional languages and dialects¡±. At the first stage the permission of education was restricted to private schools. However the next significant step was the establishment of language and literature departments. Y£¿K (The institution of Higher Education) approved the opening of Zaza Language and Literature Department in Munzur University (it was Tunceli University then) in 2011. This university began accepting students in 2012 and the students attending the mentioned department were in a state of great exciment. In the following year Bing£¿l University established the same department and accepted students too. The first graduates were naturally from Munzur university. At the present time the department of Zazaki language and literature is available only in the two mentioned universities. Thus they have become the centres of Zazaki studies and activities for those who have an interest in this field. In this study our aim is to make a general evaluation of the mentioned two departments and to discuss their possible contributions to the universities. In this context we have prepared a questionnaire and shared it with our students. Through the help of this questionnaire we have obtained various data such as the interest of students for their department and the possible advantages of the departments for their universities and cities
%K Zazaca
%K Dil
%K B£¿l¨¹m
%U http://dergipark.org.tr/kent/issue/36326/377296