Shabaks

Shabak
Total population
200,000–500,000 (2017 estimation)
Regions with significant populations
Native: Nineveh Plains and Mosul
Diaspora: Iraqi Kurdistan, southern Iraq, and Baghdad
Languages
Shabaki, Kurdish (Kurmanji, Sorani), Arabic
Religion
Majority: Shia Islam
Minority: Sunni Islam and Yarsanism
Historically: Shabakism
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Shabaks (Arabic: الشبك, Kurdish: شەبەک, romanized: Şebek) are a group that inhabit the Nineveh Plains in Iraq. They speak Shabaki, a Northwestern Iranian language belonging to the Shabaki-Bajelani subgroup of the Gorani group. Shabak ethnic identity has been disputed; while some sources and Kurdish authorities have regarded them as Kurds, most Shabaks consider themselves a distinct ethnic group, neither Arab nor Kurdish.

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