Tati (Takestani): writing

01Scripts

• ISO 15924 Arab · Right to left

  ا ب پ تPersian alphabet

  32 letters. Short vowels are not written in ordinary text.

02Alphabet chart: Persian alphabet

Letters: Unicode CLDR exemplar characters for fa.

• 32 letters. Short vowels are not written in ordinary text.
• Persian uses its own digit shapes (CLDR numbering system arabext), different from Arabic digits for 4, 5 and 6.
• Nasta’liq is the traditional calligraphic style; Naskh is the usual print style.

Sources Unicode Common Locale Data Repository (CLDR), version 49 data. (2026) Verified; The Unicode Standard, version 18.0.0: Unicode Character Database. (2026) Verified

03Numerals

04Orthography and standards

No official orthography body is recorded for Tati (Takestani) yet.

Sources ISO 639-3 code tables. SIL International, registration authority. (2025) To verify; ISO 15924 codes for the representation of names of scripts. Unicode Consortium, registration authority. (2025) Verified; Unicode Common Locale Data Repository (CLDR), version 49 data. (2026) Verified

05Keyboards and typing

Windows

Settings, Time and language, Language and region: add the language, then its keyboard. Switch with Windows key and Space.

macOS

System Settings, Keyboard, Text Input: edit Input Sources and add the keyboard. Switch from the menu bar.

Android

In the keyboard app’s settings (Gboard: Languages), add the language and choose its layout.

iPhone and iPad

Settings, General, Keyboard, Keyboards: add the keyboard. Switch with the globe key.

Linux

In the desktop settings (GNOME: Keyboard, Input Sources), add the layout.

Which layouts each system ships for each language changes with every release. Check the list on your device; layouts we have confirmed are named on the language’s page.

06Fonts

On this platform the language is shown with Vazirmatn. Every face is self-hosted under an open licence.

07Sources

1. Unicode Common Locale Data Repository (CLDR), version 49 data. 2026

   Verified Unicode License v3 Exemplar characters and default numbering systems, read 2026-10-23.

2. The Unicode Standard, version 18.0.0: Unicode Character Database. 2026

   Verified Unicode License v3 Character names, code points and block ranges.

3. ISO 15924 codes for the representation of names of scripts. Unicode Consortium, registration authority. 2025

   Verified

4. ISO 639-3 code tables. SIL International, registration authority. 2025

   To verify Codes cross-checked through Glottolog records; the code tables themselves were not read.

08Research and sources

Recent and relevant work on this page’s subject, from approved open scholarly sources. Metadata and links only. Titles stay as published. Not yet reviewed.

1. Southern Tati: Takestani Dialect

   Neda Taherkhani, Scott McGill Nelson · 2024 · Journal of the International Phonetic Association

   ArticleOpenAlexCrossrefOpenAIRE

2. A Syntactic Analysis of Motion Predicates in Southern Tati (Takestani Dialect)

   Neda Taherkhani · 2019 · Purdue University Graduate School

   ThesisDataCiteOpenAIREOpen accessCC-BY-4.0

3. 5 Attitudes Towards Tati Language Among its Native Speakers in Western Iran

   Ehsan Majidifard, Mohammad Mahdi Hajmalek, Saeed Rezaei · 2023 · Iranian and Minority Languages at Home and in Diaspora

   ChapterCrossrefOpenAIRE

4. The Morphophonological Processes in Takestani Tati Dialect Prefixes: An Optimality Theory Approach

   Javad Rahmani, Mohammadraza Oroji, Behzad Rahbar · 2018 · مطالعات زبان‌‌ها و گویش‌های غرب ایران

   ArticleDOAJOpen access

5. Valency‐Conditioned Allomorphy in the Verbal Agreement of the Takestani Dialect of Southern Tati

   Neda Taherkhani, Hossep Dolatian · 2024 · Transactions of the Philological Society

   ArticleCrossref

6. The Tati Language Group in The Sociolinguistic Context of Northwestern Iran and Transcaucasia

   Donald L. Stilo · 1981 · Iranian Studies

   ArticleCrossrefOpenAIRE

7. Phonetic and Phonological Investigation of Tati Kajal Dialect (Khalkhal)

   Mohammad Asadi, Mehdi Bagheri Hariry, Razzagh Kiyani · 2014 · Theory and Practice in Language Studies

   ArticleOpenAIREOpen access

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