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گیلکی · Arab script, written right to left. Spoken in Gilan, on the Caspian coast.

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glk · Arab · right to left · on request

Language · glk · Iranian, Northwestern · on request

גילכי

گیلکی · Arab script, written right to left. Spoken in Gilan, on the Caspian coast.

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אדיו
אקדמיה126 קורסים, הלא היצ' חד קא הרשמה לא פתיחאאזרחי3 קמפיינים, 5 תכניותירותא116 יומי קא דוכראנא, 40 רישומי דכרונולוגיהכברי88 מקורות מאושרים, הלא אירועים מאושרים לֵתסניפיםגו בנאיא. הלא היצ' חד מוכר לֵוֵה
ScriptArabright to lefton request

Record

glk
گیلکیGilaki · Arab
Code
glk
Family
Iranian, Northwestern
Where
גילאן, על חוף דימא כספי
Phase
on request
כיסוי
not yet measured
Codes are BCP 47 language and script subtags.

Courses that teach it

1 in the catalogue
GilakiIDCDC-LNG-02 · Planned, outline not written yet
פתח
Courses from the Academy catalogue; a course opens for enrolment one by one after review.

Writing

1 script

Its own names

گیلکیgilaki
right to left

כתבים

Arab
Persian alphabetا ب پ ت ث ج چ ح
32 letters
  • Endangered (UNESCO, to verify)
  • Written in the Persian alphabet. Letters or marks for Gilaki vowels vary between writers.
Names in the language's own writing; each sample keeps its direction.

Resources

1 resource
Glottolog: Gilakireference · Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology · checked 2026-10-23
מאומת
Each resource shows whether its link was checked. A resource without a checked link is labelled to verify.

Linguistics

family, dialects, sounds and standing
Family
Indo-European, then Classical Indo-European, then Indo-Iranian, then Iranian-Nuristani, then Iranian, then Central Iranian PBS, then Central Iranian PB, then Northwestern Iranian, then Caspian, then Gilaki-Rudbari
Codes
ISO 639-3 glk · Glottolog gila1241
Dialects
Gilaki: Eastern Gilaki, Western Gilaki (8 listed in all)
Standing
Gilaki: not endangered (4 (Educational)) משני
Gilaki-Rudbari
מאומת
בדיקה עוד, מקורא זיד עוד יאן דווח עוד
קא בדיקה דאאיא ערך עוד יארמתי

בתרה מא הויא. נטורא הערה דידוך קרי ומקורא בדק. דפא בס בתר אאיא משתניא. שמוך לא מתאמר.

Language or dialect

In everyday Persian, Gilaki is often called a dialect. Linguists classify it as a Caspian language of the Northwestern Iranian group, distinct from Persian.

to verify · Hammarström, Forkel, Haspelmath and Bank. Glottolog 5.3. Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.; Windfuhr (ed.). The Iranian Languages. Routledge.

Speakers

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מידה
speakers
שאתא
לא רשימא
מקור
הלא מקורא לֵת. לא ידיעא מחזך, ניחוש לֵוֵה.
מצב
לא ידיעא
בדיקה עוד, מקורא זיד עוד יאן דווח עוד
קא בדיקה דאאיא ערך עוד יארמתי

בתרה מא הויא. נטורא הערה דידוך קרי ומקורא בדק. דפא בס בתר אאיא משתניא. שמוך לא מתאמר.

No speaker figure has been verified for this platform yet. It stays unknown until a census or survey figure is checked with its measure, year and source.

Classification and standing from the sources named on each line. Where views differ, each view is shown with its sources.

ילף

1 course
1
GilakiIDCDC-LNG-02 · Planned, outline not written yet
A course opens after its outline is reviewed. Until then it is listed with its state.

Key

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  • לא ידיעאהלא מקורא לֵת. לא ידיעא מחזך, ניחוש לֵוֵה.
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