| Group | Iranian (with Avestan, Parthian etc.), Northwest Iranian (with Baluchi, Kurdish etc.) |
| Geography & History | Spoken in southern Azerbaijan and in northern Iran, havind no written tradition in any of the countries. |
| Phonetics | The phonetic system consists of 7 vowels, 24 consonants, it was influenced by Turkish languages (namely Azerbaijani) and has not preserved much Indo-European. Palatal and velar (soft and firm) consonants are opposed to each other (k' - k, g' - g). The intervocal r has been lost, as well as a number of dental consonants. |
| Morphology | Talysh nouns have two cases; verbs use the same stem for the present and the past tenses, and have quite a large number of forms - 8 aspects and tenses, four moods and 2 voices. The syntax is distinguished by a number ergative constructions with transitive verbs in the past tense sentences. |
| Lexicon | The vocabulary is effected greatly by Azerbaijani words which make over a half of the basic lexicon of the language. |
| Writing | No writing |
| Close Contacts | Azerbaijani, Gilani, Persian. Talysh is quite close to some other minor dialects of the region: Harzani, Tati, etc. |
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