YAZIDIS i. GENERAL, su iranicaonline.org, Encyclopædia Iranica, 20 luglio 2004. URL consultato il 13 novembre 2015.
«The Yazidis’ cultural practices are observably Kurdish, and almost all speak Kurmanji (Northern Kurdish), with the exception of the villages of Baʿšiqa and Baḥzānēin northern Iraq, where Arabic is spoken. Kurmanji is the language of almost all the orally transmitted religious traditions of the Yazidis.»
