Tati language

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The Tati language is a group of closely related Northwestern Iranian dialects spoken primarily in parts of northwestern Iran and the Caucasus, noted for preserving many archaic features of Old Iranian.

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All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Tati language canonical 2
Tati language (Iran) 1

Statements (50)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Iranian language
Northwestern Iranian language
Western Iranian language
language group
closelyRelatedTo Khwarezmian language
surface form: Old Azeri language

Talysh
surface form: Talysh language
distinctFrom Southwestern Iranian languages
surface form: Tat language (Southwestern Iranian)
family Indo-European language family
surface form: Indo-European languages

Indo-Iranian languages
glottocode tati1242
hasDialect Chali dialect
Hawrami dialect
surface form: Eshtehardi dialect

Harzandi dialect
Karingani dialect
Khalkhali dialect
Takestani dialect
Tats of Azerbaijan dialects
hasFeature conservative verbal morphology
distinction of aspirated and unaspirated stops in some dialects
ergative constructions in some dialects
rich case system compared to Modern Persian
hasWritingSystem Perso-Arabic script (occasionally)
historicallyAssociatedWith pre-Turkic languages of Azerbaijan region
influencedBy Azerbaijani language
Persian language
surface form: Persian
isNot Tat language of the Caucasus (Southwestern Iranian)
ISO639-3 tks
languageStatus endangered in some areas
vulnerable
minorityLanguageIn Iran
Azerbaijan
surface form: Republic of Azerbaijan
preservesFeatureFrom Middle Iranian
Old Iranian
region northwestern Iran and the Caucasus
sharesFeaturesWith Talysh
surface form: Talysh language
spokenIn Elburz Mountains
surface form: Alborz mountain region

Ardabil Province
Azerbaijan
surface form: Azerbaijan (country)

Caucasus region
Dagestan
East Azerbaijan Province
Iran
Qazvin Province
Azerbaijan
surface form: Republic of Azerbaijan

Zanjan Province
northwestern Iran
subclassOf Northwestern Iranian dialect continuum
subgroupOf Northwestern Iranian languages
usedBy Tati people of Iran
Tats of Azerbaijan

Referenced by (3)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Mazanderani language closelyRelatedTo Tati language
Caspian languages hasMemberLanguage Tati language
this entity surface form: Tati language (Iran)