 They speak Kurmanji dialect of the Kurdish Language
.This tribe is considered to be one of the 24 Kurdish tribes

those were moved from Iran to Karabakh and Zangezur by Shah Abbas I of Iran in the 16th century to fortify the borders of the Safavid Empire
.Tatiana Fyodorovna Aristova gives some Sheylanli Kurdish family names such as "Asadlar, Ismaillar, Nabilar, and Khudular" in the book "Kurdy Zakavkazia".