"Giliki" redirects here. For the village in Iran, see Giliki, Iran.
"Gilak language" redirects here. Not to be confused with Gilyak language.
Gilaki
Gilak
گیلٚکی زٚوان (ɡilɵki zɵvān)
Gilaki in Nastaliq style (گیلکی)
Native to
Iran, province of Gilan and parts of the province of Mazandaran and Qazvin also Alborz
Region
Southwest coast of the Caspian Sea
Ethnicity
4.6 million Gilaki (2021)[1]
Native speakers
1.45 million (2021)[1]
Language family
Indo-European
Indo-Iranian
Iranian
Western Iranian
Northwestern Iranian
Caspian
Gilaki
Dialects
Western Gilaki
Eastern Gilaki
Galeshi Gilaki
Language codes
ISO 639-3
glk
Glottolog
gila1241
Linguasphere
58-AAC-eb
Areas where Gilaki is spoken as the mother tongue
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Gilaki (گیلٚکي زٚوؤنromanized:ɡilɵki zɵvön) is an Iranian language of the Northwestern branch, spoken in south of Caspian Sea by Gilak people. Gilaki is closely related to Mazandarani.[2] The two languages of Gilaki and Mazandarani have similar vocabularies.[3][4][5][6] The Gilaki and Mazandarani languages (but not other Iranian languages)[7] share certain typological features with Caucasian languages (specifically Kartvelian language),[7][8][9] reflecting the history, ethnic identity, and close relatedness to the Caucasus region and Caucasian peoples of the Gilak people and Mazandarani people.
^ abGilaki at Ethnologue (27th ed., 2024)
^Dalb, Andrew (1998). Dictionary of Languages: The Definitive Reference to More Than 400 Languages. Columbia University Press. p. 226. ISBN 0-231-11568-7.
^Rastorgueva, V. S. (2012). The Gilaki Language(PDF). Translated by Lockwood, Ronald M. Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis. ISBN 978-91-554-8419-4.[page needed]
^"GILAN x. LANGUAGES – Encyclopaedia Iranica".
^"Gilaki".
^"OLAC resources in and about the Gilaki language".
^ abNasidze, I; Quinque, D; Rahmani, M; Alemohamad, SA; Stoneking, M (April 2006). "Concomitant Replacement of Language and mtDNA in South Caspian Populations of Iran". Curr. Biol. 16 (7): 668–73. Bibcode:2006CBio...16..668N. doi:10.1016/j.cub.2006.02.021. PMID 16581511. S2CID 7883334.
^Academic American Encyclopedia By Grolier Incorporated, page 294
^The Tati language group in the sociolinguistic context of Northwestern Iran and Transcaucasia By D.Stilo, pages 137-185
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