Mazandarani: writing

01Scripts

• ISO 15924 Arab · Right to left

  ا ب پ تPersian alphabet

  32 letters. Short vowels are not written in ordinary text.

02Alphabet chart: Persian alphabet

Letters: Unicode CLDR exemplar characters for fa.

• 32 letters. Short vowels are not written in ordinary text.
• Persian uses its own digit shapes (CLDR numbering system arabext), different from Arabic digits for 4, 5 and 6.
• Nasta’liq is the traditional calligraphic style; Naskh is the usual print style.

Sources Unicode Common Locale Data Repository (CLDR), version 49 data. (2026) Verified; The Unicode Standard, version 18.0.0: Unicode Character Database. (2026) Verified

03Numerals

04Orthography and standards

No official orthography body is recorded for Mazandarani yet.

Sources ISO 639-3 code tables. SIL International, registration authority. (2025) To verify; ISO 15924 codes for the representation of names of scripts. Unicode Consortium, registration authority. (2025) Verified; Unicode Common Locale Data Repository (CLDR), version 49 data. (2026) Verified

05Keyboards and typing

Windows

Settings, Time and language, Language and region: add the language, then its keyboard. Switch with Windows key and Space.

macOS

System Settings, Keyboard, Text Input: edit Input Sources and add the keyboard. Switch from the menu bar.

Android

In the keyboard app’s settings (Gboard: Languages), add the language and choose its layout.

iPhone and iPad

Settings, General, Keyboard, Keyboards: add the keyboard. Switch with the globe key.

Linux

In the desktop settings (GNOME: Keyboard, Input Sources), add the layout.

Which layouts each system ships for each language changes with every release. Check the list on your device; layouts we have confirmed are named on the language’s page.

06Fonts

On this platform the language is shown with Vazirmatn. Every face is self-hosted under an open licence.

07Sources

1. Unicode Common Locale Data Repository (CLDR), version 49 data. 2026

   Verified Unicode License v3 Exemplar characters and default numbering systems, read 2026-10-23.

2. The Unicode Standard, version 18.0.0: Unicode Character Database. 2026

   Verified Unicode License v3 Character names, code points and block ranges.

3. ISO 15924 codes for the representation of names of scripts. Unicode Consortium, registration authority. 2025

   Verified

4. ISO 639-3 code tables. SIL International, registration authority. 2025

   To verify Codes cross-checked through Glottolog records; the code tables themselves were not read.

08Research 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

   ArticleZenodoDOAJOpenAIREOpen accessCC-BY-4.0

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

   DatasetOpenAlexCrossref

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

   ChapterOpenAlexCrossref

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

   Habib Borjian · 2006 · Iranian Studies

   ArticleOpenAlexDataCiteOpen access

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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