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Encyclopedia > Mazandarani language

Mazandarani
Māzərūni مازِرونی - Mazəni مازنی
Tabəri تبری - Tabərsi تبرسی
Spoken in: Mazandaran, and some parts of Tehran, Golestan, Semnan, Khorasan (Iran
Region: Southern Mazandaran Sea
Total speakers: 3 - 4.5 million (As Native)
Language family: Indo-European
 Indo-Iranian
  Iranian
   Western Iranian
    Northwestern Iranian
     Mazandarani 
Writing system: Perso-Arabic Script 
Official status
Official language of: none
Regulated by: Linguistic Faculty of Babol University
Language codes
ISO 639-1: none
ISO 639-2: ira
ISO 639-3: mzn

Mazandarani or Tabari (Also known as: Mazeniki, Taperki) is an Iranian language of the northwestern branch. Spoken mainly in Iran's Mazandaran and Golestan provinces, it is mutually unintelligible with respect to Persian. [1] Mazandaran (Persian: مازندران) is a province in northern Iran, bordering the Caspian (Mazandaran) Sea in the north. ... This article does not cite its references or sources. ... Gonbad-e Qabus, built in 1007, is a reminder of the blossoming of art and architecture in medieval Persia. ... Semnan is one of the 30 provinces of Iran. ... Khorasan (Persian: خراسان) (also transcribed as Khurasan and Khorassan; Horasan in Turkish) is a region located in eastern Iran. ... Caspian Sea viewed from orbit The Caspian Sea is a landlocked endorheic sea of Eurasia between Asia and Europe. ... Current distribution of Human Language Families A language family is a group of related languages said to have descended from a common proto-language. ... The Indo-European languages comprise a family of several hundred related languages and dialects [1], including most of the major languages of Europe, as well as many spoken in the Indian subcontinent (South Asia), the Iranian plateau (Southwest Asia), and Central Asia. ... The Indo-Iranian language group constitutes the easternmost extant branch of the Indo-European family of languages. ... task manager disable ---- please help ... The Northwestern Iranian languages include some 53 (SIL estimate) languages and dialects spoken by about many people in Asia; this language family is a part of the Western Iranian language family. ... Writing systems of the world today. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Persian alphabet. ... ISO 639-1 is the first part of the ISO 639 international-standard language-code family. ... ISO 639-2 is the second part of the ISO 639 standard, which lists codes for the representation of the names of languages. ... ISO 639-3 is in process of development as an international standard for language codes. ... Articles with similar titles include the NATO phonetic alphabet, which has also informally been called the “International Phonetic Alphabet”. For information on how to read IPA transcriptions of English words, see IPA chart for English. ... Phonetics (from the Greek word φωνή, phone meaning sound, voice) is the study of the sounds of human speech. ... Unicode is an industry standard designed to allow text and symbols from all of the writing systems of the world to be consistently represented and manipulated by computers. ... The Iranian languages are a branch of the Indo-European language family. ... Mazandaran (Persian: مازندران) is a province in northern Iran, bordering the Caspian (Mazandaran) Sea in the north. ... Gonbad-e Qabus, built in 1007, is a reminder of the blossoming of art and architecture in medieval Persia. ... Persian (Local names: فارسی Fârsi or پارسی Pârsi)* is an Indo-European language spoken in Iran, Afghanistan and Tajikistan as well as by minorities in Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, India, Pakistan, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Southern Russia, neighboring countries, and elsewhere. ...

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History

Among the living Iranian languages, Mazandarani has one of the longest written traditions, from the tenth to the fifteenth century. This status was achieved during the long reign of the independent and semi-independent rulers of Mazandaran in the centuries after the Arab invasion[2]. The Iranian languages are a branch of the Indo-European language family. ... Mazandaran (Persian: مازندران) is a province in northern Iran, bordering the Caspian (Mazandaran) Sea in the north. ...


The rich literature of this language includes books such as Marzban Nameh (later translated into Persian) and the poetry of Amir Pazevari. The use of Mazandarani, however, has been in decline. Its literary and administrative rank was lost to Persian perhaps long before the ultimate integration of Mazandaran into the national administration in the early seventeenth century. [3], also speaking Persian. Mazandaran (Persian: مازندران) is a province in northern Iran, bordering the Caspian (Mazandaran) Sea in the north. ... Persian (Local names: فارسی Fârsi or پارسی Pârsi)* is an Indo-European language spoken in Iran, Afghanistan and Tajikistan as well as by minorities in Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, India, Pakistan, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Southern Russia, neighboring countries, and elsewhere. ...


The Mazandarani language is closely related to Gilaki and the two languages have similar vocabularies. Notably, the language did not come under the influence of other incoming languages such as Arabic and Turkish. According to Ethnologue, there were more than three million native speakers of Mazandarani in 1993 speaking different dialects such as Gorgani, Ghadikolahi and Palani[4] Gilaki or Guilaki (گیلکی) is one of the North-western Iranian languages spoken in Irans Gilan province. ... Arabic can mean: From or related to Arabia From or related to the Arabs The Arabic language; see also Arabic grammar The Arabic alphabet, used for expressing the languages of Arabic, Persian, Malay ( Jawi), Kurdish, Panjabi, Pashto, Sindhi and Urdu, among others. ... Ethnologue: Languages of the World is a web and print publication of SIL International (formerly known as the Summer Institute of Linguistics), a Christian linguistic service organization which studies lesser-known languages primarily to provide the speakers with Bibles in their native language. ... 1993 (MCMXCIII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and marked the Beginning of the International Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination (1993-2003). ...


Grammar

Mazanderani is an Inflected and Gender free language.[5] It is considered SVO in conventional typology. [6]. This article is in need of attention. ... Gender-neutral or gender-inclusive language attempts to give equal weight to both genders in contexts where the gender of a person or group of people may be ambiguous. ...


Orthography

Perso-Arabic Script

Mazanderani is commonly written in the Perso-Arabic script.[7]


Romanization

Jahangir Nasr Ashrafi proposed latin scripture of this language to be used in dictionaries and other textural resources for compatibly of forigners. It is also being usable in Chat, Email and SMS messages. Look up chat in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... E-mail, or email, is short for electronic mail and is a method of composing, sending, and receiving messages over electronic communication systems. ... SMS may refer to: Short message service, a form of text messaging on cell phones Sega Master System – an 8-bit video game console from the 1980s Seiner Majestät Schiff, His Majestys Ship in the German Kaiserliche Marine and the Austro-Hungarian Navy SMS (comics), a British comic...


Vocabulary

Mazandarani also has many words which have the same root as English has. (As well as some other Germanic languages), Below a sample list of words which are common in daily speech of both languages are listed. The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ... This article does not cite its references or sources. ...

 English  Mazandarani  Persian
Moon Moong Maah
Cow Guw Gaav Maada
Bad Bad Bad
No No Na:
New Neu No
Let's Les Ejaze
Gab Gap Goftogoo
Great Geat Bozorg
Be Be Bud
Leg Leng Pa

Influences exerted by Mazanderani

Modern-day of Iran

There are many popular companies in iran that their name are from the origin words of this language.


In non-Iranian languages

There are some Mazanderani loanwords in the Turkmen language.[8] There is also evidence that Sanskrit and Mazanderani share some words. Turkmen (Latin script: Türkmen, Cyrillic: Түркмен, ISO 639-1: tk, ISO 639-2: tuk) is the name of the national language of Turkmenistan. ... Sanskrit ( , for short ) is a classical language of India, a liturgical language of Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism, and one of the 23 official languages of India. ...


References

General

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Notes

  1. ^ [1], p.66).
  2. ^ Windfuhr, G. L., New Iranian languages: Overview. In R. Schmitt. (Ed.), Compendium linguarum Iranicarum (pp. 246-49). Wiesbaden: L.Reichert, 1989.
  3. ^ [2]
  4. ^ [3]
  5. ^ [4]
  6. ^ [5]
  7. ^ http://www.language-keyboard.com/resource/indo-euro/mazanderani.htm
  8. ^ Jahangir Nasr Ashrafi, 2005, Dictionary of Tabari, Vol 5, comparison between Mazanderani and Turkmen

Further reading

Recent Studies

  • Archiv Orientálni, 2006, The Oldest Known Texts in New Tabari: The Collection of Aleksander ChodŸko, 74/2, pp. 153-171.
  • Habib Borjian, 2006, Amir Pazevari (legendary poet of Mazandarani language), University of Minnesota, United States
  • Iranian Studies, 2006, A Mazandarani account of the Babi Incident at Shaikh Tabarsi, 39/3, pp. 381-400.
  • Guyesh-shenâsi, 2006, Textual sources for the study of Tabari language I. Olddocuments, no. 4.

Other Studies Amir Pazevari was a Mazandarani Iranian poet with numerous works written in the Mazandarani language. ... Washington Avenue Bridge at night The University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, almost always abbreviated U of M, and sometimes referred to as The U by locals, is the oldest and largest part of the University of Minnesota system. ...

  • Nawata; 1984; Mazandarani; Asian and African Grammatical Manual, No 17, Tokyo, ILCAA

Year 1984 (MCMLXXXIV) was a leap year starting on Sunday (link displays the 1984 Gregorian calendar). ... This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ...

Bibliography

  • Johannes Albrecht Bernhard Dorn, 1860-66, Masanderanische Sprache (I-II/1, 3, St. Petersburg)
  • Satoko Yoshie, 1998, Sari Dialect (of Mazandarani language), Institute for the Study of Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa, Tokio, Japan [6][7][8]
  • Dr. Shokri, Guiti; 1995, Sari Dialect(of Mazandarani), Tehran, Institute for Humanities and CulturalStudies.
  • Dr. Shokri, Guiti; 2006, Ramsari Dialect , Tehran, Institute for Humanties and Cultural Studies.

Johannes Albrecht Bernhard Dorn, also cited as Boris Andreevich Dorn (born April 29, 1805 in Scheierfeld, Saxe-Coburg, Germany; died May 19, 1881 in St. ... Saint Petersburg (Russian: Санкт-Петербу́рг, English transliteration: Sankt-Peterburg), colloquially known as Питер (transliterated Piter), formerly known as Leningrad (Ленингра́д, 1924–1991) and... Year 1998 (MCMXCVIII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display full 1998 Gregorian calendar). ... For the city see: Sari, Iran. ... TOKIO is a Japanese popular pop/rock band formed by Johnny & Associates in 1994. ... This article does not cite its references or sources. ... Ramsar (in Persian: رامسر) is a town in Mazandaran province of Iran, at the Caspian Sea. ... This article does not cite its references or sources. ...

See also

The Mazandarani people (or Tabari people) are a group of Northwestern Iranian people who mostly speak Mazandarani and inhabit Mazandaran. ...

External links

Mazandarani language edition of Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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