Mazandarani

01The language

Codes

ISO 639-3: mzn · Glottocode: maza1291 · page code: mzn

Family

Indo-European › Classical Indo-European › Indo-Iranian › Iranian-Nuristani › Iranian › Central Iranian PBS › Central Iranian PB › Northwestern Iranian › Caspian › Mazanderani-Shahmirzadi

Script

Arab, right to left

Interface

In preparation

Platform phase

By demand

Technology support

Low resource

Shown with

Vazirmatn

Notes

Endangered (UNESCO, to verify)

Sources Hammarström, Forkel, Haspelmath and Bank. Glottolog 5.3. Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. (2025) Verified; ISO 639-3 code tables. SIL International, registration authority. (2025) To verify

02Names and perspectives

Where names, classification or identity are debated, each view is shown with its sources. The platform takes no side.

• مازرونی māzeruni

• Language or dialect

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

  Sources Hammarström, Forkel, Haspelmath and Bank. Glottolog 5.3. Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. (2025) Verified; Windfuhr (ed.). The Iranian Languages. Routledge. (2009) To verify

03Where it is spoken, and by how many

Mazandaran and eastern Gilan, on the Caspian coast

04Status

The UNESCO World Atlas of Languages is the United Nations source; its status is shown first and stays to verify until the Atlas can be read. Beside it, the Agglomerated Endangerment Status in Glottolog brings together the Catalogue of Endangered Languages, the UNESCO Atlas and Ethnologue. Ethnologue appears only as a secondary source.

05Varieties and dialects

Dialect groups as Glottolog records them. Names stay as published.

Sources Hammarström, Forkel, Haspelmath and Bank. Glottolog 5.3. Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. (2025) Verified

06This language’s pages

• Writing

  Scripts, the alphabet chart, romanisation, numerals, keyboards and fonts.

• Linguistics

  Sounds in IPA, pronunciation, grammar and core words compared with neighbouring languages.

• Learn

  A pathway from first steps to fluency, courses, exams and heritage-language programmes.

• Resources and preservation

  Dictionaries, corpora, libraries and media; endangerment and documentation; how to contribute.

07Courses

• Mazandarani

  Planned

08How to help

• Native translators: translate the pages into Mazandarani. This language gets human translation only.
• Teachers: teach or help write Mazandarani.
• Sources: point the research team to openly licensed dictionaries, corpora and recordings. Each enters the sources register for review.
• Fonts and keyboards: report any letter that does not display or type correctly.

09Sources

1. Hammarström, Forkel, Haspelmath and Bank. Glottolog 5.3. Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. 2025

   Verified CC BY 4.0 Classification, dialect groups and the Agglomerated Endangerment Status (AES), read 2026-10-23.

2. Windfuhr (ed.). The Iranian Languages. Routledge. 2009

   To verify

3. UNESCO. World Atlas of Languages. 2025

   To verify Not reachable when checked on 2026-10-23. Its status for each language is to verify.

4. Eberhard, Simons and Fennig (eds.). Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 28th edition. SIL International. 2025

   Secondary source Cited only as Glottolog reports it (its AES source). Ethnologue itself was not read.

10Research 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. Thrips mazandarani sp. n. (Thysanoptera: Thripidae): a new species from the southern coast of the Caspian Sea, Iran

   Mirabbalou Majid · 2025 · Entomological Society of Iran

   ArticleZenodoDOAJOpenAIREOpen accessCC-BY-4.0

2. Case in Caspian Languages: Gilaki, Mazandarani, Talysh, Tati

   Владимир Борисович Иванов, Leyli Rakhimovna Dodykhudoeva · 2025 · RUDN Journal of Language Studies Semiotics and Semantics

   ArticleOpenAlexDOAJOpenAIREOpen accessCC-BY-NC

3. The Study of Cognate and Non-Cognate Nouns and Verbs Naming in Mazandarani-Persian Bilinguals

   Mansoureh Kazemi, Azar Mehri, Shohreh Jalaei et al. · 2023 · Journal of Modern Rehabilitation

   ArticleDOAJOpenAIREOpen access

4. Two Mazandarani Texts from the Nineteenth Century

   Habib BORJIAN · 2008 · Studia Iranica

   ArticleCrossrefDataCiteOpenAIREOpen access

5. Mazandarani cattle

   CABI · 2017 · CABI Compendium

   DatasetOpenAlexCrossref

6. INVESTIGATING ASSIMILATION AND METHATHESIS PROCESSES IN MAZANDARANI LANGUAGE, MARZOUN KOLA VARIETY.

   Fatemeh Yazdani, Foroogh Kazemi. · 2019 · Zenodo

   ArticleDataCiteZenodoOpen accessCC-BY-4.0

7. The Mazandarani Dialect of Kalijān Rostāq

   Habib Borjian · 2019 · Iranian Studies

   ArticleOpenAlex

8. Mazandarani: A typological survey

   Habib Borjian · 2019 · De Gruyter eBooks

   ChapterOpenAlexCrossref

9. A Mazandarani Account of the Babi Incident at Shaikh Tabarsi

   Habib Borjian · 2006 · Iranian Studies

   ArticleOpenAlexDataCiteOpen access

10. Low vowel dissimilation in Mazandarani

    Mohsen Mahdavi Mazdeh, Sarah Nehzati · 2024 · Journal of Iranian linguistics.

    ArticleOpenAlexOpen accessCC-BY-NC

11. What Does It Mean to Be a Woman? An Exploratory Study of Femininities among Mazandarani, Azeri and Kurdish Female University Students in Iran

    Ladan Rahbari, Zeinab Mahmudabadi · 2017 · Social Sciences

    ArticleDOAJOpen access

12. A Lexical Archaism in Mazandarani

    Mohammad Ghanbari · 2011 · Iran and the Caucasus

    ArticleOpenAlex

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