Mazandarani language
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Mazanderani مازندرانی Tabari طبری Geleki گلکی |
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| Native to | Iran, province of Mazandaran and parts of the provinces of Alborz, Gilan, Tehran, Semnan and Golestan |
| Region | South coast of the Caspian Sea |
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Native speakers
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5.5 million (2013) 3.3 million (1993) |
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Indo-European
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| Persian alphabet | |
| Official status | |
| Regulated by | None. But the Linguistic faculty of Mazanderan University officially gathers materials and resources about it. |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | Either: mzn – Mazanderani srz – Shahmirzadi |
| Glottolog | maza1305 |
Areas where Mazanderani is spoken as the mother tongue
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5.5 million (2013)
Mazanderani (مازندرانی) or Tabari (طبری) or Geleki (گلکی) is an Iranian language of the Northwestern branch, spoken mainly in Iran's Mazandaran, Tehran and Golestan provinces. As a member of the Northwestern branch (the northern branch of Western Iranian), etymologically speaking it is rather closely related to Gilaki, and more distantly related to Persian, which belongs to the Southwestern branch. Mazandarani is closely related to Gilaki and the two languages have similar vocabularies. The Gilaki and Mazandarani languages (but not other Iranian languages) share certain typological features with Caucasian languages (specifically South Caucasian languages), reflecting the history, ethnic identity, and close relatedness to the Caucasus region and Caucasian peoples of the Mazandarani people and Gilaki people.
The name Mazanderani (and variants of it) derives from the name of the historical region of Mazandaran (Mazerun in Mazanderani), which was part of former Kingdom of Tapuria. People traditionally call their language Geleki, the same as Gilekis do.
Gileki consist of two morphemes : Gil + postfix ki. The name Tapuri (or Tabari) which was the name of an ancient language of somewhere in former Tapuria, Nowadays becomes prevalent into youth groups instead of Gileki. However, Gilan and Mazanderan were part of the same state known as Tapuria which its national language was known as Gileki.
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