Mazanderani

Also known as Tabari language, Mazanderani language, Tabari

Northwestern Iranian language spoken mainly in Iran's Mazandaran, Golestan, Gilan, Semnan, Tehran, Alborz and Qazvin provinces

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Mazanderani is a language spoken primarily in northern Iran across several provinces including Mazandaran, Gilan, and Golestan. It belongs to the Northwestern Iranian language family and represents an important part of Iran's linguistic diversity, though it remains less widely known than Persian despite being spoken by hundreds of thousands of people in its regional heartland.

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Wikimedia language code: mzn
number of speakers, writers, or signers: 3270000
native label: گلکی
exact match: publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/language/MZN
Commons category: Mazandarani language

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Mazanderani (Mazeruni: مازِرونی; also referred to as Mazani (مازنی), Tabari (تبری) or Taveri, Tati, Geleki and Galeshi) is an Iranian language of the Northwestern branch spoken by the Mazanderani people. As of 2023, there were 1.35 million native speakers. 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 Mazani and Persian languages have both influenced each other to a great extent, both are independent languages with different origins in the Iranian plateau.

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 the non-Indo-European South Caucasian languages), reflecting the history, ethnic identity, and close relatedness to the Caucasus region and Caucasian peoples of Mazandaranis and Gilak people.