Tabari

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Tabari is an Iranian language spoken along the southern coast of the Caspian Sea, primarily in Iran’s Mazandaran province.

All labels observed (3)

Label Occurrences
Tabari canonical 4
Central Tabari 1
Eastern Tabari 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (48)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Iranian language
Northwestern Iranian language
language
alternativeName Mazandarani
Mazanderani
Mazani
closelyRelatedTo Gilaki
Talysh
country Iran
culturalRole marker of Mazanderani identity
educationStatus rarely used as medium of formal education
endangermentCause language shift to Persian
ethnologueName Mazanderani
glottocode maza1291
hasDialect Central Mazanderani
Eastern Mazanderani
Gorgani-type varieties
Western Mazanderani
linked to: Central Mazanderani
hasOnlinePresence regional news websites
social media content
ISO639-3Code mzn
languageFamily Indo-European languages
Indo-Iranian languages
Iranian languages
lexicalInfluenceFrom Arabic
Persian
Russian
Turkic languages
morphologicalFeature agglutinative tendencies
phonologicalFeature contrastive vowel length in some dialects
rich vowel system
primaryRegion Mazandaran Province
recognizedAs regional language of Iran
region Gilan Province
Golestan Province
southern coast of the Caspian Sea
revitalizationEffort local cultural associations in Mazandaran
scriptDirection right-to-left
sharesFeaturesWith Caspian languages
Persian
status vulnerable language
subgroup Caspian languages
syntacticFeature subject–object–verb word order
usedBy Mazanderani people
usedIn oral literature of Mazandaran
regional media in Mazandaran
writingSystem Arabic script
Persian alphabet
linked to: Perso-Arabic script

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (6)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Mazanderani alternateName Tabari
Central Mazanderani hasAlternativeName Central Tabari
linked to: Tabari
Eastern Mazanderani hasAlternativeName Eastern Tabari
linked to: Tabari