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Talysh

Gilan and Ardabil, and southern Azerbaijan

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Tolışi

01The language

Codes
ISO 639-3: tly · Glottocode: taly1247 · page code: tly
Family
Indo-European › Classical Indo-European › Indo-Iranian › Iranian-Nuristani › Iranian › Central Iranian PBS › Central Iranian PB › Northwestern Iranian › Adharic › Tatic › Central Tatic
Script
Arab/Latn, right to left
Interface
In preparation
Platform phase
By demand
Technology support
Low resource
Shown with
IBM Plex Sans

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

  • Tolışi

03Where it is spoken, and by how many

Gilan and Ardabil, and southern Azerbaijan

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
North-Central TalyshNot endangeredAt riskCampbell, Lee, Okura, Simpson and Ueki. The Catalogue of Endangered Languages (ElCat). (2022) Secondary source via Glottolog

05Varieties and dialects

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

North-Central Talysh

7 dialects recorded

  • Central Talyshi
  • Northern Talyshi

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.

07How to help

  • Native translators: translate the pages into Talysh. This language gets human translation only.
  • Teachers and authors: help write the first Talysh course.
  • 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.

08Sources

  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. UNESCO. World Atlas of Languages. 2025

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

  3. Campbell, Lee, Okura, Simpson and Ueki. The Catalogue of Endangered Languages (ElCat). 2022

    Secondary source Cited only as Glottolog reports it (its AES source).

Cite this page
APA

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

Chicago

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

BibTeX
@misc{idcdc2026_language_languages_tly,
	author = {{Iranian Diaspora Cooperation \& Development Council}},
	year = {2026},
	note = {Licence: CC BY 4.0},
	title = {Talysh},
	url = {https://iranians.global/language/languages/tly/},
	howpublished = {https://iranians.global/language/languages/tly/},
}

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AU  - Iranian Diaspora Cooperation & Development Council
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PY  - 2026
ID  - idcdc2026_language_l
N1  - Licence: CC BY 4.0
TI  - Talysh
UR  - https://iranians.global/language/languages/tly/
ER  -

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09Research 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. Case in Caspian Languages: Gilaki, Mazandarani, Talysh, Tati

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

    ArticleOpenAlexCrossrefOpenAIREOpen accessCC-BY-NC

  2. The Evolution of Talysh Ethnic Identity: From Soviet Manipulation to Contemporary Reality

    Petr Kokaisl · 2024 · Qeios Ltd

    PreprintCrossrefEurope PMCOpenAIREOpen accessCC-BY-4.0

  3. Study and Analysis of Body-Related Idioms in the Talysh Language of the Anbaran Region [In Persian]

    Afshin Khanbabazadeh, Mahnaz Nezamianbaran · 2025 · زبان کاوی کاربردی

    ArticleDOAJOpen access

  4. mtDNA and Y‐chromosome variation in the Talysh of Iran and Azerbaijan

    Ivan Nasidze, Dominique Quinque, Manijeh Rahmani et al. · 2008 · American Journal of Physical Anthropology

    ArticleOpenAlexEurope PMCOpenAIRE

  5. Mountain-meadow lands of the subalpine zone of the Talysh highlands

    2023 · AS-ABSTRACTS

    ArticleCrossref

  6. The Problem of Case in Caspian Languages (Gilaki, Mazandarani, Talysh, Tatic)

    Владимир Борисович Иванов, Leyli Rakhimovna Dodykhudoeva · 2026 · Iranian and Persian Studies.

    ChapterOpenAlex

  7. Review of: "The Evolution of Talysh Ethnic Identity: From Soviet Manipulation to Contemporary Reality"

    Shamkhal Abilov · 2024 · Qeios Ltd

    ArticleCrossref

  8. Positive orientation towards the vernacular among the Talysh of Sumgayit

    Calvin Tiessen · 2018 · Work Papers of the Summer Institute of Linguistics University of North Dakota Session

    ArticleOpenAlexOpen access

  9. THE IMPACT OF CLIMATIC FACTORS ON DENUDATION PROCESSES IN THE TALYSH MOUNTAINS

    2026 · Elmi Xəbərlər Lənkəran Dövlət Universiteti

    ArticleCrossref

Sources, licences and fetch dates: Crossref (Metadata facts, any use; abstracts may be publisher-owned and are never shown), 2026-10-23; DOAJ (Metadata CC0 1.0 (DOAJ); articles under their own open licences), 2026-10-23; Europe PMC (Metadata reusable; full text under each article’s licence), 2026-10-23; OpenAIRE (CC BY 4.0 (OpenAIRE Graph)), 2026-10-23; OpenAlex (CC0-1.0 data; metered API (free key)), 2026-10-23.