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Tati (Takestani)

Qazvin and Zanjan

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تاتی

01The language

Codes
ISO 639-3: tks · Glottocode: take1255 · page code: tks
Family
Indo-European › Classical Indo-European › Indo-Iranian › Iranian-Nuristani › Iranian › Central Iranian PBS › Central Iranian PB › Northwestern Iranian › Adharic › Tatic › Southern Tatic › Ramand-Karaj
Script
Arab, right to left
Interface
In preparation
Platform phase
By demand
Technology support
Not supported by major engines
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.

  • تاتی tāti

03Where it is spoken, and by how many

Qazvin and Zanjan

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
TakestaniNot 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.

Takestani

5 dialects recorded

  • Khalkhal
  • Kharaqan
  • Ramand
  • Tarom
  • Zanjan

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 Tati (Takestani). This language gets human translation only.
  • Teachers and authors: help write the first Tati (Takestani) 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. 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. 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). Tati (Takestani). iranians.global. https://iranians.global/language/languages/tks/

Chicago

Iranian Diaspora Cooperation & Development Council. 2026. “Tati (Takestani).” iranians.global. https://iranians.global/language/languages/tks/.

BibTeX
@misc{idcdc2026_language_languages_tks,
	author = {{Iranian Diaspora Cooperation \& Development Council}},
	year = {2026},
	note = {Licence: CC BY 4.0},
	title = {Tati ({Takestani})},
	url = {https://iranians.global/language/languages/tks/},
	howpublished = {https://iranians.global/language/languages/tks/},
}

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AU  - Iranian Diaspora Cooperation & Development Council
DA  - 2026///
PY  - 2026
ID  - idcdc2026_language_l
N1  - Licence: CC BY 4.0
TI  - Tati (Takestani)
UR  - https://iranians.global/language/languages/tks/
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. Southern Tati: Takestani Dialect

    Neda Taherkhani, Scott McGill Nelson · 2024 · Journal of the International Phonetic Association

    ArticleOpenAlexCrossrefOpenAIRE

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

    Neda Taherkhani · 2019 · Purdue University Graduate School

    ThesisDataCiteOpenAIREOpen accessCC-BY-4.0

  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

    ChapterCrossrefOpenAIRE

  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

    ArticleDOAJOpen access

  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

    ArticleCrossref

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

    Donald L. Stilo · 1981 · Iranian Studies

    ArticleCrossrefOpenAIRE

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

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

    ArticleOpenAIREOpen access

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