Mazandarani language - Simple English Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Mazanderani | |
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Mazänderuni مازرونی Tabäri تبری | |
Native to | Iran, province of Mazandaran and parts of the provinces of Alborz, Tehran, Semnan and Golestan |
Region | South coast of the Caspian Sea |
Native speakers | (3.3 million cited 1993) |
Dialects |
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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 (in Mazandarani: Mäzeruni) is a Iranian language. It is spoken in northern Iran. Areas that use it are: Mazandaran, 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.
Script and alphabet
[change | change source]Mazandarani language was written in the Pahlavi alphabet in the early centuries of Islam. The language uses the Arabic alphabet.
Literature
[change | change source]Mazandarni language has the oldest literature among local languages in Iran. Among books written in this language are:
- Translation of Quran
- Marzbananme
- Nikiname
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