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.

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Tabari canonical 2

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Iranian language
Northwestern Iranian language
language
alternativeName Mazandarani NERFINISHED
Mazanderani NERFINISHED
Mazani NERFINISHED
closelyRelatedTo Gilaki NERFINISHED
Talysh NERFINISHED
country Iran
culturalRole marker of Mazanderani identity
educationStatus rarely used as medium of formal education
endangermentCause language shift to Persian
ethnologueName Mazanderani NERFINISHED
glottocode maza1291
hasDialect Central Mazanderani NERFINISHED
Eastern Mazanderani NERFINISHED
Gorgani-type varieties
Western Mazanderani NERFINISHED
hasOnlinePresence regional news websites
social media content
ISO639-3Code mzn
languageFamily Indo-European language family
surface form: Indo-European languages

Indo-Iranian languages
Iranian languages NERFINISHED
lexicalInfluenceFrom Arabic NERFINISHED
Persian NERFINISHED
Russian
Turkic languages NERFINISHED
morphologicalFeature agglutinative tendencies
phonologicalFeature contrastive vowel length in some dialects
rich vowel system
primaryRegion Mazandaran Province NERFINISHED
recognizedAs regional language of Iran
region Gilan Province NERFINISHED
Golestan Province NERFINISHED
southern coast of the Caspian Sea
revitalizationEffort local cultural associations in Mazandaran
scriptDirection right-to-left
sharesFeaturesWith Caspian languages NERFINISHED
Persian NERFINISHED
status vulnerable language
subgroup Caspian languages NERFINISHED
syntacticFeature subject–object–verb word order
usedBy Mazanderani people NERFINISHED
usedIn oral literature of Mazandaran
regional media in Mazandaran
writingSystem Arabic script
Persian alphabet NERFINISHED

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