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Gilaki language
| Gilaki | |
|---|---|
| گیلٚکی زٚوان (Gilɵki Zɵvon) | |
 | |
| Native to | Iran, province of Gilan and parts of the province of Mazandaran and Qazvin also Alborz |
| Region | Southwest coast of the Caspian Sea |
| Ethnicity | 4.6 million Gilaks (2021)[1] |
Native speakers | 1.45 million (2021)[1] |
| Dialects | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | glk |
| Glottolog | gila1241 |
| Linguasphere | 58-AAC-eb |
 Areas where Gilaki is spoken as the mother tongue | |
Gilaki (گیلٚکي زٚوؤن romanized: Gilɵki Zɵvon) is an Iranian language belonging to the Caspian subgroup of the Northwestern branch, spoken in south of Caspian Sea by Gilak people. Gilaki is closely related to Mazandarani.[2] The two languages of Gilaki and Mazandarani have similar vocabularies.[3][4][5][6] The Gilaki and Mazandarani languages (but not other Iranian languages)[7] share certain typological features with Caucasian languages (specifically Kartvelian languages),[7][8][9] reflecting the history, ethnic identity, and close relatedness to the Caucasus region and Caucasian peoples of the Gilak people and Mazandarani people.
- ^ a b Gilaki at Ethnologue (27th ed., 2024)
- ^ Dalb, Andrew (1998). Dictionary of Languages: The Definitive Reference to More Than 400 Languages. Columbia University Press. p. 226. ISBN 0-231-11568-7.
- ^ Rastorgueva, V. S. (2012). The Gilaki Language (PDF). Translated by Lockwood, Ronald M. Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis. ISBN 978-91-554-8419-4.[page needed]
- ^ "GILAN x. LANGUAGES – Encyclopaedia Iranica".
- ^ "Gilaki".
- ^ "OLAC resources in and about the Gilaki language".
- ^ a b Nasidze, I; Quinque, D; Rahmani, M; Alemohamad, SA; Stoneking, M (April 2006). "Concomitant Replacement of Language and mtDNA in South Caspian Populations of Iran". Curr. Biol. 16 (7): 668–73. Bibcode:2006CBio...16..668N. doi:10.1016/j.cub.2006.02.021. PMID 16581511. S2CID 7883334.
- ^ Academic American Encyclopedia By Grolier Incorporated, page 294
- ^ The Tati language group in the sociolinguistic context of Northwestern Iran and Transcaucasia By D.Stilo, pages 137-185
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