Talisch

Talisch
Spoken in	Iran , Azerbaijan
speaker	2 million
Linguistic classification	Indo-European languages Indo-Iranian languages Iranian languages Western Iranian Northwest Iranian Talisch
Official status
Official language in	-
Language codes
ISO 639 -1	-
ISO 639 -2	ira
ISO 639-3	tly

Talish dialects in Azerbaijan (north) and Iran (south of the border).

Percentage of the Talish-speaking population in Iran by province

The Talish is an Iranian language that the Azerbaijani - Iranian along the border area Caspian Sea is spoken. It is the language of the Talysi . The Talish has three dialects, namely Northern (Azerbaijan, Iran), Central (Iran) and Southern (Iran). The Northern Valley was also known under the name Talish-i Gushtasbi .

See also

• Talysh Khanate

literature

• Garnik Asatrain and Habib Borjian: Talish: people and language: The state of research from the journal Iran and the Caucasus 9/1, 2005, pp. 43–72

Web links

Test Wikipedia in Talisch

• TolishRadio
• Ethnologue report for Talysh
• Positive Orientation Towards the Vernacular among the Talysh of Sumgayit (PDF file; 1.22 MB)
• Sample text in Talish (PDF file; 134 kB)