Mazandarani language

Mazandarani (in Mazandarani: Mäzeruni) is a Iranian language. It is spoken in northern Iran. Areas that use it are: Mazandaran, west of Golestan, north of Tehran and Semnan and northeast of Qazvin. Between 3-4 million people speak it. Mazandarni is an older Iranian language.

Mazanderani
Mazänderuni مازرونی
Tabäri تبری
Native toIran, province of Mazandaran and parts of the provinces of Alborz, Tehran, Semnan and Golestan
RegionSouth coast of the Caspian Sea
Native speakers
(3.3 million cited 1993)
Indo-European
Dialects
  • Mazanderani
  • Shahmirzadi
  • Gorgani†
Persian alphabet
Official status
Regulated byNone. but Linguistic faculty of Mazanderan University officially gathers materials and resources about it.
Language codes
ISO 639-3Either:
mzn  Mazanderani
srz  Shahmirzadi
Areas where Mazanderani is spoken as mother tongue

Script and alphabet

Mazandarani language was written in the Pahlavi alphabet in the early centuries of Islam. The language uses the Arabic alphabet.

Literature

Mazandarni language has the oldest literature among local languages in Iran. Among books written in this language are:

  • Translation of Quran
  • Marzbananme
  • Nikiname
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