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on request · Language · mzn · Iranian, Northwestern

Mazandarani

مازرونی · Arab script, written right to left. Spoken in Mazandaran and eastern Gilan, on the Caspian coast.

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Mazandarani

مازرونی · Arab script, written right to left. Spoken in Mazandaran and eastern Gilan, on the Caspian coast.

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mzn
مازرونیMazandarani · Arab
Code
mzn
Family
Iranian, Northwestern
Where
Mazandaran and eastern Gilan, on the Caspian coast
Phase
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Coverage
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Codes are BCP 47 language and script subtags.

Courses that teach it

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MazandaraniIDCDC-LNG-03 · Open for enrolment on study.iranians.global
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Writing

1 script

Its own names

مازرونیmāzeruni
right to left

Scripts

Arab
Persian alphabetا ب پ ت ث ج چ ح
32 letters
  • Endangered (UNESCO, to verify)
  • Written in the Persian alphabet. CLDR records the same letters for Mazandarani as for Persian.
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Resources

1 resource
Glottolog: Mazanderanireference · Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology · checked 2026-10-23
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Linguistics

family, dialects, sounds and standing
Family
Indo-European, then Classical Indo-European, then Indo-Iranian, then Iranian-Nuristani, then Iranian, then Central Iranian PBS, then Central Iranian PB, then Northwestern Iranian, then Caspian, then Mazanderani-Shahmirzadi
Codes
ISO 639-3 mzn · Glottolog maza1291
Dialects
Mazanderani: Central Caspian, Gachsari, Galeshi of Mazanderan, Nuclear Mazanderani, Velatru (11 listed in all)
Standing
Mazanderani: not endangered (5* (Developing)) secondary
Sounds
22 consonants and 7 vowels, after Mokhtarian 2004 · the inventory verified

b d d̠ʒ f ɡ h j k l̪ m n̪ p q r s ʃ t t̠ʃ v x z ʒ a ɑ e ɛ i o u

Mazanderani-Shahmirzadi
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Language or dialect

In everyday Persian, Mazandarani is often called a dialect. Linguists classify it as a Caspian language of the Northwestern Iranian group, close to Gilaki.

to verify · Hammarström, Forkel, Haspelmath and Bank. Glottolog 5.3. Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.; Windfuhr (ed.). The Iranian Languages. Routledge.

Speakers

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Year
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MazandaraniIDCDC-LNG-03 · Open for enrolment on study.iranians.global
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