Abstract

Languages have different features. These features make languages different from each other. Languages in the Indo-European language family have some features that other language families do not. One of them is gender. Even though gender has disappeared in languages such as Soranca and Persian, it continues to exist in Zazaki and Kurmanji. Gender is one of the basic features of languages and consists of two parts. Natural sex is naturally found in names. Natural sex is classified as feminine and masculine; It consists of prefixes and suffixes. It expresses man- and dele- in prefixes. It is not difficult to determine natural sex. This type of gender is determined by whether the words are masculine or feminine. The second part of gender is gramatical gender. It is difficult to determine the grammatical gender. This difficulty arises from the determination of the sex of the words. There is no consensus in grammatical gender in zazaki. The gender of the words varies from region to region. Although there is no problem in gramatical gender in everyday language, the gender of the word in written language is a problem for the author. In this study, the sexes of the words in Zazaki language are divided into two as natural gender and gramatical gender. Then, natural gender is explained with examples, prefixes and suffixes. There are some basic features in gramatical gender. In this study, these rules and features will be explained and examples of books, dictionaries and folkloric materials will be given. The purpose of this study is to explain gender in Zazaki, to determine the rules for determining the gender in words. The words entered into Zazaki from other languages were examined in this study in terms of gender. In this study, it has been given importance to use folkloric texts. Dictionaries that reflect local sayings are important sources for this study.