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Gilaki

گیلکی · Arab script, written right to left. Spoken in Gilan, on the Caspian coast.

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Language · glk · Iranian, Northwestern · on request

Gilaki

گیلکی · Arab script, written right to left. Spoken in Gilan, on the Caspian coast.

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glk

گیلکیGilaki · Arab

Code: glk
Family: Iranian, Northwestern
Where: Gilan, on the Caspian coast
Phase: on request
Coverage: not yet measured

Codes are BCP 47 language and script subtags.

Courses that teach it

1 in the catalogue

GilakiIDCDC-LNG-02 · Planned, outline not written yet

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Writing

1 script

Its own names

گیلکیgilaki

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. Letters or marks for Gilaki vowels vary between writers.

Names in the language's own writing; each sample keeps its direction.

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Resources

1 resource

Glottolog: Gilakireference · Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology · checked 2026-10-23

barlandy

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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 Gilaki-Rudbari
Kodlar: ISO 639-3 glk · Glottolog gila1241
Dialects: Gilaki: Eastern Gilaki, Western Gilaki (8 listed in all)
Standing: Gilaki: not endangered (4 (Educational)) ikinji derejeli

Gilaki-Rudbari

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Barla, çeşme goş ýa-da habar ber

Language or dialect

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

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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Ölçeg: speakers
Ýyl: not recorded
Çeşme: No source yet. We show unknown, not a guess.
Ýagdaý: näbelli

Barla, çeşme goş ýa-da habar ber

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Öwren

1 course

GilakiIDCDC-LNG-02 · Planned, outline not written yet

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