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Gilaki

Gilan, on the Caspian coast

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گیلکی

01The language

Codes
ISO 639-3: glk · Glottocode: gila1241 · page code: glk
Family
Indo-European › Classical Indo-European › Indo-Iranian › Iranian-Nuristani › Iranian › Central Iranian PBS › Central Iranian PB › Northwestern Iranian › Caspian › Gilaki-Rudbari
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.

  • گیلکی gilaki

03Where it is spoken, and by how many

Gilan, on the Caspian coast

Unknown

Speakers: 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.

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.

EntryStatusBasisSource
UNESCO World Atlas of LanguagesTo verifyUNESCO. World Atlas of Languages. (2025) To verify
GilakiNot endangered4 (Educational)Eberhard, Simons and Fennig (eds.). Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 28th edition. SIL International. (2025) Secondary source via Glottolog

05Varieties and dialects

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

Gilaki

8 dialects recorded

  • Eastern Gilaki
  • Western Gilaki

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

08How to help

  • Native translators: translate the pages into Gilaki. This language gets human translation only.
  • Teachers: teach or help write Gilaki.
  • 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.

Cite this page
APA

Iranian Diaspora Cooperation & Development Council. (2026). Gilaki. iranians.global. https://iranians.global/language/languages/glk/

Chicago

Iranian Diaspora Cooperation & Development Council. 2026. “Gilaki.” iranians.global. https://iranians.global/language/languages/glk/.

BibTeX
@misc{idcdc2026_language_languages_glk,
	author = {{Iranian Diaspora Cooperation \& Development Council}},
	year = {2026},
	note = {Licence: CC BY 4.0},
	title = {Gilaki},
	url = {https://iranians.global/language/languages/glk/},
	howpublished = {https://iranians.global/language/languages/glk/},
}

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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. The quotative marker in Gilaki

    Sascha Völlmin · 2019 · De Gruyter eBooks

    ChapterOpenAlexCrossrefDataCiteOpenAIREOpen access

  2. ILM Shaili Package — Gilaki (glk)

    Abhishek Choudhary · 2026 · Zenodo

    SoftwareDataCiteZenodoOpen accessCC-BY-4.0

  3. Nominal linkers in Gilaki

    Mansour Shabani, Sahar Taghipour · 2023 · Toronto Working Papers in Linguistics

    ArticleOpenAlexCrossrefOpenAIREOpen accessCC-BY

  4. Var and Manəstən Adpositions in Gilaki Language

    Elahe Hoseyni Matak, Ehsan Changizi · 2020 · ̒Ilm-i Zabān

    ArticleDOAJOpen access

  5. Issues of studying laryngeal characteristics of prosody in Iranian languages (on the example of Persian, Gilaki, and Wakhi)

    Liubov Silanteva · 2025 · Проблемы языка: Сборник научных статей по материалам Одиннадцатой конференции-школы «Проблемы языка: взгляд молодых ученых»

    ArticleOpenAIRE

  6. Clitics in Gilaki: A typological approach

    Hakimeh Pourjamal Ghouyjagh, Mansour Shabani, Seyed Misagh Habibzadeh · 2025 · نشریه پژوهش‌های زبان‌شناسی

    ArticleDOAJOpen access

  7. Gilaki

    Alireza Eshraghi · 2015 · ScholarSpace (University of Hawaii at Manoa)

    ArticleOpenAlexOpen accessCC-BY-NC-SA

  8. Reflection of work culture in Gilan popular literature; Looking at Gilaki proverbs

    Javad Nazarimoghaddam · 2022 · مجله مطالعات ایرانی

    ArticleDOAJOpen access

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

    Vladimir B. Ivanov, Leyli R. Dodykhudoeva · 2025 · RUDN Journal of Language Studies, Semiotics and Semantics

    ArticleDOAJOpenAIREOpen access

  10. The Gilaki Language

    V. S. Rastorgueva, A. A. Kerimova, Akhmed Kerimovich Mamedzade et al. · 2012 · KTH Publication Database DiVA (KTH Royal Institute of Technology)

    BookOpenAlexOpen accessother-oa

  11. Gilaki: From Language Regimes into Minoritizing

    Sedighe Zamani Roodsari · 2023 · Studies in Linguistics and Literature

    ArticleCrossrefCC-BY-4.0

  12. Split noun phrase topicalization in Eshkevarat Gilaki

    Arsalan Kahnemuyipour, Mansour Shabani · 2018 · The Linguistic Review

    ArticleCrossref

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