Tatoid dialects

The Tatoid dialects are dialects of the Tati language spoken in the Iranian provinces of Gilan, Qazvin and Alborz.^[1] Tatoid includes the Rudbari, Taleghani and Alamuti dialects. According to Stilo, this special status for this recent type is that these two varieties were originally Tatic which, under the intense influences of Caspian and Persian, have lost all their Tatic grammatical structures.^[2]

Tatoid
Tati
تاتی (Tati)
Language family	Indo-European Indo-Iranian Iranian Western Iranian Northwestern Iranian Old Azeri Tati Tatoid
Language codes
ISO 639-3	–
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Alamuti dialect

According to some sources, the people in northern Qazvin (Alamut) speak a dialect of the Tati language.^{[3][4][5][6][7][8]} However, other sources state that the people of Alamut are Mazanderani^[9][10] or Gilaks who speak a dialect of the Mazandarani or Gilaki language.^[11][12] According to some linguists, the term ‘Tati’ was used by Turkic speakers to refer to non-turkic speakers.^[13][14][15] This could explain why some sources refer to the Alamut dialects as Tatoid, while others claim they are Mazandarani or Gilaki. Likely, the ‘Tatoid dialect’ of Alamut is a dialect of Mazandarani^[16] or Gilaki, which was labeled as Tati as historically the dialect was considered Mazandarani or Gilaki.^[17]

See also

• Tati language
• Tat people (Iran)
• Northwestern Iranian languages

Further reading

• Yousefi, Saeedreza; Mirdehghan Farashah, Mahinnaz (2021-03-21). "A Critical Review of the Chapter Five of The Languages and Linguistics of Western Asia: An Areal Perspective Entitled: "The Caspian Region and South Azerbaijan: Caspian and Tatic"". Pizhuhish/nāmah-i intiqādī-i mutūn va barnāmah/hā-yi ̒ulūm-i insāni (Critical Studies in Texts & Programs of Human Sciences). 21 (1): 387–409. doi:10.30465/crtls.2020.27930.1645. ISSN 2383-1650.
• Stilo, Donald L. (2018-12-03). "5. The Caspian region and south Azerbaijan: Caspian and Tatic". The Languages and Linguistics of Western Asia. De Gruyter Mouton. pp. 659–824. doi:10.1515/9783110421682-019. ISBN 978-3-11-042168-2. S2CID 189648471.