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

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

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

   Petr Kokaisl · 2024 · Qeios Ltd

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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

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

   2023 · AS-ABSTRACTS

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

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

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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

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