Tat
Also known as Tat language, Tati, Crimean Tat, Caucasian Tat, Caucasian Persian, Tati Persian, Zuhun Tati, Muslim Tat
Persian dialect group spoken in the Caucasus
Key facts
- Native to
- Azerbaijan , Dagestan ( Russia )
- Region
- Caucasus
- Ethnicity
- Tats , Armeno-Tats
- Native speakers
- 34,000 excluding Judeo-Tat (2011–2020 census)
- Language family
- Indo-European Indo-Iranian Iranian Western Iranian Southwestern Iranian Persian Tat
- Writing system
- In Azerbaijan: , Latin ( Azerbaijani alphabet ) In Russia: basic Cyrillic plus digraphs Among Armeno-Tats: Armenian alphabet
- Official language in
- Russia Dagestan
- Iso 639 3
- ttt
- Glottolog
- cauc1242 Caucasian Tat, musl1236 Muslim Tat
- Linguasphere
- 58-AAC-g
via Wikipedia infobox
Article
Tat, also known as Caucasian Persian, Tat/Tati Persian, or Caucasian Tat, is a Southwestern Iranian language closely related to Persian and spoken by the Tats in Azerbaijan and Russia.
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