The Kharberd-Yerznka dialect was a grouping of different varieties of the same dialect that were spoken in the regions of Kharberd, Erzincan, Dersim, and Kiğı in the Ottoman Empire before WWI. After which it was spoken only in the diaspora In Syria, Romania, United States, and Lebanon. Although the Dersim variety was still spoken in Tunceli until 1938 when The Alevi were dissolved and the remaining Armenians of Tunceli became Alevi and were assimilated into Zaza society.