| Also Known As: Tabri,Mazandarani
Description:
Mazandarani (also Mazanderani) or Tabari (Also known as: Mazeniki) is an Iranian language of the northwestern branch, spoken mainly in Iran's Mazandaran and Golestan provinces. As a member of the Northwestern branch (the northern branch of Western Iranian), genetically speaking it is rather closely related to Kurdish, Zaza, and Balochi, and more distantly related to Persian, which belongs to the Southwestern branch.
Virtually all speakers of Mazandarani are also fluent in standard Persian. Some dialectologists have concluded that the language is converging with Persian.
The name Mazandarani (and variants of it) derives from the name of the historical region of Mazandaran (Mazerun in Mazandarani), which was part of former Kingdom of Tapuria. People traditionally call their language Gileki, the same as Gilekis do. Gileki consist of two morphemes : Gil + postfix ki. The name Tapuri (or Tabari) which was the name of an ancient language of somewhere in former Tapuria, Nowadays becomes prevalent into youth groups instead of Gileki. However, Gilan and Mazanderan were part of the same state known as Tapuria which its national language was known as Gileki.
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