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on request · Language · tks · Iranian, Northwestern

Tati (Takestani)

تاتی · Arab script, written right to left. Spoken in Qazvin and Zanjan.

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tks · Arab · right to left · on request

Language · tks · Iranian, Northwestern · on request

Tati (Takestani)

تاتی · Arab script, written right to left. Spoken in Qazvin and Zanjan.

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Academy126 courses, 126 open for enrolmentCivic3 campaigns, 5 programmesHeritage116 days to keep, 40 chronology entriesNews88 approved sources, no confirmed events yetChaptersforming. None is recognised yet
ScriptArabright to lefton request

Record

tks
تاتیTati (Takestani) · Arab
Code
tks
Family
Iranian, Northwestern
Where
Qazvin and Zanjan
Phase
on request
Coverage
not yet measured
Codes are BCP 47 language and script subtags.

Courses that teach it

1 in the catalogue
Safe documentation of abusesIDCDC-DIG-03 · Open for enrolment on study.iranians.global
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segments approvedunknown
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Writing

1 script

Its own names

تاتیtāti
right to left

Scripts

Arab
Persian alphabetا ب پ ت ث ج چ ح
32 letters
  • Endangered (UNESCO, to verify)
Names in the language's own writing; each sample keeps its direction.

Resources

1 resource
Glottolog: Takestanireference · 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 Adharic, then Tatic, then Southern Tatic, then Ramand-Karaj
Codes
ISO 639-3 tks · Glottolog take1255
Dialects
Takestani: Khalkhal, Kharaqan, Ramand, Tarom, Zanjan (5 listed in all)
Standing
Takestani: not endangered (At risk) secondary
Ramand-Karaj
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Name

Tati names several Iranian varieties of northwestern Iran. It is a different language from the Tat of the Caucasus.

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

Speakers

unknown
Measure
speakers
Year
not recorded
Source
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Status
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Learn

1 course
1
Safe documentation of abusesIDCDC-DIG-03 · Open for enrolment on study.iranians.global
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