Tati (Takestani): linguistics

01Pronunciation

Each letter with its usual sound.

Persian alphabet

Sound values are a teaching guide for the standard language, labelled to verify. Dialects differ. To verify

Sources Wikimedia Commons: pronunciation recordings, each under its own open licence. (2026) To verify

02Core words compared

Ten everyday words across the languages of the region.

Persian, Kurdish, Zazaki and Balochi are Iranian languages, and many of their core words are related. Azerbaijani is Turkic and Armenian is its own branch of Indo-European, so their words differ. To verify

Sources Steingass. A Comprehensive Persian-English Dictionary. Routledge and K. Paul. Digital edition: Digital Dictionaries of South Asia, University of Chicago. (1892) Verified; Chyet. Kurdish-English Dictionary. Yale University Press. (2003) To verify; Wahby and Edmonds. A Kurdish-English Dictionary. Clarendon Press. (1966) To verify; Paul. Zazaki: Grammatik und Versuch einer Dialektologie. Reichert. (1998) To verify; Jahani and Korn. Balochi. In Windfuhr (ed.), The Iranian Languages. (2009) To verify; Johanson and Csató (eds.). The Turkic Languages. Routledge. (1998) To verify; Dum-Tragut. Armenian: Modern Eastern Armenian. John Benjamins. (2009) To verify

03Sources

1. Steingass. A Comprehensive Persian-English Dictionary. Routledge and K. Paul. Digital edition: Digital Dictionaries of South Asia, University of Chicago. 1892

   Verified Public domain. The digital edition was reachable on 2026-10-23.

2. Chyet. Kurdish-English Dictionary. Yale University Press. 2003

   To verify

3. Wahby and Edmonds. A Kurdish-English Dictionary. Clarendon Press. 1966

   To verify

4. Paul. Zazaki: Grammatik und Versuch einer Dialektologie. Reichert. 1998

   To verify

5. Jahani and Korn. Balochi. In Windfuhr (ed.), The Iranian Languages. 2009

   To verify

6. Johanson and Csató (eds.). The Turkic Languages. Routledge. 1998

   To verify

7. Dum-Tragut. Armenian: Modern Eastern Armenian. John Benjamins. 2009

   To verify

04Research 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

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

   Neda Taherkhani · 2019 · Purdue University Graduate School

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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

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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

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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

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

   Donald L. Stilo · 1981 · Iranian Studies

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

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

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