Gilaki language
Western Iranian language
Gilaki (گیلٚکي زٚوؤن; ɡilɵki zɵvön) is an Iranian language spoken in south of the Caspian Sea by the Gilak people.[2][3] Gilaki language is closely related to Mazandarani.[4][2] Both languages have similar vocabularies and share some features with Caucasian languages.[5][6][7]
Gilaki | |
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Gilak | |
گیلٚکی زٚوان (ɡilɵki zɵvān) | |
![]() Gilaki in Nastaliq style (گیلکی) | |
Native to | Iran, province of Gilan and parts of the province of Mazandaran and Qazvin also Alborz |
Region | Southwest coast of the Caspian Sea |
Ethnicity | 4.6 million Gilaki (2021)[1] |
Native speakers | 2.55 million (2021)[1] |
Dialects | |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | glk |
Glottolog | gila1241 |
Linguasphere | 58-AAC-eb |
Areas where Gilaki is spoken as the mother tongue | |
References
change- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Gilaki | Ethnologue Free". Ethnologue (Free All).
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Nasidze, I; Quinque, D; Rahmani, M; Alemohamad, SA; Stoneking, M (April 2006). "Concomitant Replacement of Language and mtDNA in South Caspian Populations of Iran". Curr. Biol. 16 (7): 668–73. doi:10.1016/j.cub.2006.02.021. PMID 16581511. S2CID 7883334.
- ↑ The Tati language group in the sociolinguistic context of Northwestern Iran and Transcaucasia By D.Stilo, pages 137-185
- ↑ Dalb, Andrew (1998). Dictionary of Languages: The Definitive Reference to More Than 400 Languages. Columbia University Press. p. 226. ISBN 0-231-11568-7.
- ↑ "GILAN x. LANGUAGES – Encyclopaedia Iranica".
- ↑ "Gilaki".
- ↑ "OLAC resources in and about the Gilaki language".