Guilaki

E376812

Guilaki is an alternative name for the Gilaki language spoken by the Gilak people of northern Iran, primarily in the Gilan province along the Caspian Sea.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Gilak 1
Guilaki canonical 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (49)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Iranian language
Northwestern Iranian language
language
alternativeName Gilaki
closelyRelatedTo Mazanderani language
Talysh
surface form: Talysh language
coastalRegion Caspian Sea
country Iran
differentFrom Persian language
endangeredStatus vulnerable
ethnicLanguageOf Gilak people
hasCaseMarking limited case marking
hasDialect Gilaki
surface form: Eastern Gilaki

Galeshi
Gilaki
surface form: Western Gilaki
hasDistinctNumeralsFrom Persian language
hasDistinctPronounsFrom Persian language
hasLexicalInfluenceFrom Arabic language
Persian language
Russian language
hasLoanwordsFrom Russian language
Turkic languages
hasMorphologicalType fusional language
hasPhonologicalFeature vowel harmony-like patterns in some dialects
hasPostpositions true
hasPrepositions true
hasStressPattern word-final stress in many dialects
hasSVOOrder true
hasVerbFinalTendency true
isMinorityLanguageIn Iran
ISO639-3Code glk
languageFamily Indo-European language family
surface form: Indo-European languages

Indo-Iranian languages
Iranian languages
linguisticArea Caspian languages
surface form: Caspian linguistic area
region southwestern coast of the Caspian Sea
sharesFeaturesWith Caucasian languages (areal grouping)
surface form: Caucasian languages
spokenBy Gilak people
spokenIn Gilan Province
Iran
northern Iran
subgroupOf Caspian languages
usedFor everyday communication in Gilan Province
usedIn folk literature of Gilan
traditional songs of Gilak people
usedInMedia local radio in Gilan
local television in Gilan
writingSystem Arabic script
Perso-Arabic script
surface form: Persian alphabet

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Referenced by (2)

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

Gilaki hasAlternativeName Guilaki
Golestan Province hasEthnicGroup Guilaki
this entity surface form: Gilak