Mazandarani: linguistics

01Sounds

The language’s phonemes, from one published description.

02Pronunciation

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

03Core 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

04Sources

1. Moran and McCloy (eds.). PHOIBLE 2.0. Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History. 2019

   Verified CC BY-SA 3.0 Phoneme inventories, each from the published source it names, read 2026-10-23.

2. 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.

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

   To verify

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

   To verify

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

   To verify

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

   To verify

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

   To verify

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

   To verify

05Research 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. Thrips mazandarani sp. n. (Thysanoptera: Thripidae): a new species from the southern coast of the Caspian Sea, Iran

   Mirabbalou Majid · 2025 · Entomological Society of Iran

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

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

   ArticleOpenAlexDOAJOpenAIREOpen accessCC-BY-NC

3. The Study of Cognate and Non-Cognate Nouns and Verbs Naming in Mazandarani-Persian Bilinguals

   Mansoureh Kazemi, Azar Mehri, Shohreh Jalaei et al. · 2023 · Journal of Modern Rehabilitation

   ArticleDOAJOpenAIREOpen access

4. Two Mazandarani Texts from the Nineteenth Century

   Habib BORJIAN · 2008 · Studia Iranica

   ArticleCrossrefDataCiteOpenAIREOpen access

5. Mazandarani cattle

   CABI · 2017 · CABI Compendium

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6. INVESTIGATING ASSIMILATION AND METHATHESIS PROCESSES IN MAZANDARANI LANGUAGE, MARZOUN KOLA VARIETY.

   Fatemeh Yazdani, Foroogh Kazemi. · 2019 · Zenodo

   ArticleDataCiteZenodoOpen accessCC-BY-4.0

7. The Mazandarani Dialect of Kalijān Rostāq

   Habib Borjian · 2019 · Iranian Studies

   ArticleOpenAlex

8. Mazandarani: A typological survey

   Habib Borjian · 2019 · De Gruyter eBooks

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9. A Mazandarani Account of the Babi Incident at Shaikh Tabarsi

   Habib Borjian · 2006 · Iranian Studies

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10. Low vowel dissimilation in Mazandarani

    Mohsen Mahdavi Mazdeh, Sarah Nehzati · 2024 · Journal of Iranian linguistics.

    ArticleOpenAlexOpen accessCC-BY-NC

11. What Does It Mean to Be a Woman? An Exploratory Study of Femininities among Mazandarani, Azeri and Kurdish Female University Students in Iran

    Ladan Rahbari, Zeinab Mahmudabadi · 2017 · Social Sciences

    ArticleDOAJOpen access

12. A Lexical Archaism in Mazandarani

    Mohammad Ghanbari · 2011 · Iran and the Caucasus

    ArticleOpenAlex

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