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Also Known As: Gilani,Guilani,Guilaki,Gelaki Description: The...
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<tr><td><b>Also Known As:</b> Gilani,Guilani,Guilaki,Gelaki

<b>Description:</b>

The Giləki language is an ancient and living Caspian language, and a member of the northwestern Iranian language branch, spoken in Iran's Mazanderan and Gīlān Provinces.
The language is divided into three dialects: Western Gilaki, Eastern Gilaki, and Galeshi (in the mountains of Gilan). Furthermore, the Gilaki language is closely related to Mazanderani, and the two languages have similar vocabularies. The western and eastern dialects are separated by the Sefid River. According to Ethnologue, there were more than 3 million native speakers of Gilaki in 1993.
Gilaki also shares many features and structures with the Talysh language and with Zazaki, the latter mainly spoken in Turkey. There are some grammatical differences between Gilaki and standard Persian, especially in possessive and adjectives. Unlike Persian, most possessives and adjectives precede the head noun, similar to English.
Gilaki has the same consonants as Persian, but different vowels. Here is a table of correspondences for the Western Gilaki of Rasht (as will be the variety used in the remainder of the article):
The consonants are:
The verb system of Gilaki is very similar to that of Persian. All infinitives end in<i>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/index.html?curid=3538824 ..... full article at Wikipedia]</i></td></tr>
<tr><td><h2>Location of Gilaki Language Speakers</h2>
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<h2>Overview</h2>

<tr><td><b>Main Country: </b></td><td>[http://www.freebase.com/view/en/iran Iran]</td></tr>

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<b><i>Regions: </i></b>[http:///www.freebase.com/view/en/asia Asia]
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<tr><td><b>ISO 639-3 Code: </b></td><td>glk</td></tr>

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<tr><td><h2>Classification Taxonomy</h2>
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  [[Indo-European Group]]

    [[Indo-Iranian Group]]

      [[Iranian Group]]

        [[Western Iranian Group]]

          [[Indo-European Indo-Iranian Iranian Northwestern Western Group]]

            [[Caspian Group]]

              <b>[[Gilaki Language]]</b>

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