| Group |
Iranian (with Avestan, Parthian
etc.), Northwest Iranian (with Baluchi, Kurdish
etc.) |
| Geography & History |
Mazanderan is a province in northern Iran, east to Gilan and south
to the Caspian. In the 10th century the Arabic geographers name this region
Tabaristan, with its capital Sari. This means that Mazanderani speakers
had their own independent state once. At that time their language was called
Tabari in which poetry and literature was written. Today's native speakers
of the language use Persian widely as the second
tongue for official communication and as the written language, to the number
of documents in Mazanderani is quite reduced. |
| Writing |
Arabic based alphabet (Tabari), Persian script (Mazanderani) |
| Close Contacts |
Persian, Kurdish, Azerbaijani are the closest neighbours. Local dialects
of Shamerzadi and Welatru are very close to Mazanderani in structure, but
their speakers do not consider themselves Mazanderani people and believe
their languages are independent. |
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