Act (people)

Spread of the Tatar language in North Azerbaijan and South Daghestan

The Tāt or Taten are an Iranian-speaking people living in what is now the Republic of Dagestan ( Russia ) and northern Azerbaijan . Tats use the Tatic language , a southwestern Iranian language, and a variation of Persian .

The table-speaking population comprises around 30–50,000 people (as of 2003) who traditionally predominantly profess Islam , but also Judaism or, less often, Armenian Christianity . The majority of the acts are Shiite . To what extent they have a common identity with the Jewish acts ( mountain Jews ) is controversial. Many members of the Jewish group (also: Judaeo-Taten) have emigrated to Israel , Russia , the USA or Europe in the last few decades (see also Alija ).

origin

A woman from Lahic

The acts traditionally carried out agriculture in the former Baku province , where they are said to have immigrated from Azerbaijan (Iran) during the rule of the Sassanids .

language

The Tat language is one of the Iranian languages and is very close to Middle Persian . In the meantime, however, it has become heavily Turkish. In Russia, Taty is a written language and one of the official languages of Dagestan.

The word Tat may come from the Turkic-speaking area and probably means " Persian ". The same root can also be found in the word Tajik , which occupy the same position as the deed in the far east of the former Persia and are generally regarded as "Persians of Central Asia ".

Web links

Ethnologue classification and brief information on the language of the deeds (English).

Individual evidence

^ Gernot Windfuhr, "Persian Grammar: history and state of its study", Walter de Gruyter, 1979. pg 4: "" Tat- Persian spoken in the East Caucasus ""
^ V. Minorsky, "Tat" in M. Th. Houtsma et al., Eds., The Encyclopædia of Islam: A Dictionary of the Geography, Ethnography and Biography of the Muhammadan Peoples, 4 vols. and Suppl., Leiden: Late EJ Brill and London: Luzac, 1913-38.
^ V. Minorsky, "Tat" in M. Th. Houtsma et al., Eds., The Encyclopædia of Islam: A Dictionary of the Geography, Ethnography and Biography of the Muhammadan Peoples, 4 vols. and Suppl., Leiden: Late EJ Brill and London: Luzac, 1913-38. Excerpt: Like most Persian dialects, Tati is not very regular in its characteristic features "
^ C Kerslake, Journal of Islamic Studies (2010) 21 (1): 147-151. excerpt: "It is a comparison of the verbal systems of three varieties of Persian — standard Persian, Tat, and Tajik — in terms of the 'innovations' that the latter two have developed for expressing finer differentiations of tense, aspect and modality .. . " [1]
↑ Borjian, Habib, "Tabari Language Materials from Il'ya Berezin's Recherches sur les dialectes persans", Iran and the Caucasus, Volume 10, Number 2, 2006, pp. 243-258 (16). Excerpt: "It embraces Gilani, Talysh, Tabari, Kurdish, Gabri, and the Tati Persian of the Caucasus, all but the last belonging to the north-western group of Iranian language."

[Gernot_Windfuhr_1979._pg_4-1] Gernot Windfuhr, "Persian Grammar: history and state of its study", Walter de Gruyter, 1979. pg 4: "" Tat- Persian spoken in the East Caucasus ""

[2] V. Minorsky, "Tat" in M. Th. Houtsma et al., Eds., The Encyclopædia of Islam: A Dictionary of the Geography, Ethnography and Biography of the Muhammadan Peoples, 4 vols. and Suppl., Leiden: Late EJ Brill and London: Luzac, 1913-38.

[3] V. Minorsky, "Tat" in M. Th. Houtsma et al., Eds., The Encyclopædia of Islam: A Dictionary of the Geography, Ethnography and Biography of the Muhammadan Peoples, 4 vols. and Suppl., Leiden: Late EJ Brill and London: Luzac, 1913-38. Excerpt: Like most Persian dialects, Tati is not very regular in its characteristic features "

[4] C Kerslake, Journal of Islamic Studies (2010) 21 (1): 147-151. excerpt: "It is a comparison of the verbal systems of three varieties of Persian — standard Persian, Tat, and Tajik — in terms of the 'innovations' that the latter two have developed for expressing finer differentiations of tense, aspect and modality .. . " [1]

[5] Borjian, Habib, "Tabari Language Materials from Il'ya Berezin's Recherches sur les dialectes persans", Iran and the Caucasus, Volume 10, Number 2, 2006, pp. 243-258 (16). Excerpt: "It embraces Gilani, Talysh, Tabari, Kurdish, Gabri, and the Tati Persian of the Caucasus, all but the last belonging to the north-western group of Iranian language."