Northwestern Iranian language spoken mainly in Iran's Mazandaran and Golestan provinces From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Mazandarani (in Mazandarani: Mäzeruni) is a Iranian language. It is spoken in northern Iran. Areas that use it are: Mazandaran,parts of gilan, west of Golestan, north of Tehran and Semnan and northeast of Qazvin. Between 3-4 million people speak it. Mazandarni is an older Iranian language.
Mazanderani | |
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Mazänderuni مازرونی Tabäri تبری | |
Native to | Iran, province of Mazandaran and parts of the provinces of gilan, Alborz, Tehran, Semnan and Golestan |
Region | South coast of the Caspian Sea |
Native speakers | (3.3 million cited 1993) |
Indo-European
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Persian alphabet | |
Official status | |
Regulated by | None. but Linguistic faculty of Mazanderan University officially gathers materials and resources about it. |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | Either:mzn – Mazanderanisrz – Shahmirzadi |
Areas where Mazanderani is spoken as mother tongue |
Mazandarani language was written in the Pahlavi alphabet in the early centuries of Islam. The language uses the Arabic alphabet.
Mazandarni language has the oldest literature among local languages in Iran. Among books written in this language are:
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