Mazanderani (Mazeruni) written in Nastaliq script. (مازِرونی)
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
4.6 million Mazanderani (2021)[1]
Native speakers
1.36 million (2021)[1]
Language family
Indo-European
Indo-Iranian
Iranian
Western Iranian
Northwestern
Caspian
Mazandarani
Dialects
Gorgani-Mazandarani (East)
Katuli-Mazandarani (East)
Tabari-Mazandarani (Center)
Kojuri-Mazandarani (West)
Kelarestaqi-Mazandarani (West)
Galeshi-Mazandarani (South)
Taleqani-Mazandarani (South)
Shahmirzadi (South)
Ilikaei (South)
Qasrani (South)
Writing system
Persian alphabet
Official status
Regulated by
None. However, the Linguistic faculty of Mazandaran University officially gathers materials and resources about the language.[citation needed]
Language codes
ISO 639-3
Either: mzn – Mazandarani srz – Shahmirzadi
Glottolog
maza1305 Mazanderani–Shahmirzadi
ELP
Shahmirzadi
Areas where Mazandarani is spoken as the mother tongue
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Mazandarani (Mazanderani: مازِرونی, Mazeruni; also spelled Mazani (مازنی) or Tabari (تبری); also called Geleki[5])[1] is an Iranian language of the Northwestern branch spoken by the Mazandarani people. As of 2021[update], there were 1.36 million native speakers. The language appears to be decreasing, as it is threatened, and due to the majority of its speakers shifting to Iranian Persian.[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.[6][7]
Mazandarani is closely related to Gilaki, and the two languages have similar vocabularies.[8] The Gilaki and Mazandarani languages (but not other Iranian languages)[9] share certain typological features with Caucasian languages (specifically the non-Indo-European South Caucasian languages),[9][10][11] reflecting the history, ethnic identity, and close relatedness to the Caucasus region and Caucasian peoples of Mazandaranis and Gilak people.[12][13]: 295
^ abcdefMazandarani at Ethnologue (27th ed., 2024) Shahmirzadi at Ethnologue (27th ed., 2024)
^"Considerations about the dialect of Alamut district from the northern dialects of Iran". پرتال جامع علوم انسانی.
^Jaafari Dehaghi, Mahmoud; Khalilipour, Nazanin; Jaafari Dehaghi, Shima. Iranian Languages and Dialects Past and Present. Tehran. p. 261.
^Borjian, Habib (16 July 2018). "کاهش توجه به زبان مازندرانی در قرن بیستم" [Decreased attention to Mazandarani language in the 20th century] (in Persian). Islamic Republic News Agency. Retrieved 19 December 2020.
^"ساری | مرکز دائرةالمعارف بزرگ اسلامی". www.cgie.org.ir. Retrieved 2024-03-25.
^Coon, "Iran:Demography and Ethnography" in Encyclopedia of Islam, Volume IV, E.J. Brill, pp. 10,8. Excerpt: "The Lurs speak an aberrant form of Archaic Persian" See maps also on page 10 for distribution of Persian languages and dialect
^Kathryn M. Coughlin, "Muslim cultures today: a reference guide," Greenwood Publishing Group, 2006. p. 89: "...Iranians speak Persian or a Persian dialect such as Gilaki or Mazandarani"
^Dalb, Andrew (1998). Dictionary of Languages: The Definitive Reference to More Than 400 Languages. Columbia University Press. p. 226. ISBN 978-0-231-11568-1.
^ abNasidze, Ivan; Quinque, Dominique; Rahmani, Manijeh; Alemohamad, Seyed Ali; Stoneking, Mark (2006). "Concomitant Replacement of Language and mtDNA in South Caspian Populations of Iran". Current Biology. 16 (7): 668–673. Bibcode:2006CBio...16..668N. doi:10.1016/j.cub.2006.02.021. PMID 16581511.
^Academic American Encyclopedia By Grolier Incorporated, page 294
^Stilo, Donald L. (1981). "The Tati Language Group in the Sociolinguistic Context of Northwestern Iran and Transcaucasia". Iranian Studies. 14 (3/4): 137–185. doi:10.1080/00210868108701585. JSTOR 4310364.
^"Bilingualism in Mazandaran: Peaceful Coexistence with Persian". CiteSeerX 10.1.1.501.9468.
^Borjian, Habib (2004). "Māzandarān: Language and People". Iran & the Caucasus. 8 (2). Brill: 289–328. doi:10.1163/1573384043076045. JSTOR 4030997.
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