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Mazandarani (مازندرانی), or Tabari (طبری),[1] is an Iranian language of the Northwestern branch spoken by the Mazandarani people. As of 2019[update], there were 2 million native speakers.[1] As a member of the Northwestern branch (the northern branch of Western Iranian), etymologically speaking, it is rather closely related to Gilaki and also related to Persian, which belongs to the Southwestern branch. Though the Persian language has influenced Mazandarani to a great extent, Mazandarani still survives as an independent language with a northwestern Iranian origin.[5][6]
Mazandarani | |
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مازرونی (Mazuroni)[1] طبری(Tabari)[1] | |
Native to | Iran (Province of Mazandaran and parts of the provinces of Alborz, Tehran, Qazvin,[2][3][4] Semnan and Golestan) |
Region | South coast of the Caspian Sea |
Ethnicity | Mazanderani people |
Native speakers | 2 million (2019)[1] |
Dialects |
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Persian alphabet | |
Official status | |
Regulated by | None. But the Linguistic faculty of Mazandaran University officially gathers materials and resources about it. |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | Either:mzn – Mazandaranisrz – Shahmirzadi |
Glottolog | maza1305 Mazanderani–Shahmirzadimaza1291 Mazanderanishah1253 Shahmirzadi |
ELP | Shahmirzadi |
Areas where Mazandarani is spoken as the mother tongue | |
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Mazandarani is closely related to Gilaki, and the two languages have similar vocabularies.[7] The Gilaki and Mazandarani languages (but not other Iranian languages)[8] share certain typological features with Caucasian languages (specifically the non-Indo-European South Caucasian languages),[8][9][10] reflecting the history, ethnic identity, and close relatedness to the Caucasus region and Caucasian peoples of Mazandaranis and Gilak people.[11][12]: 295