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

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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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