Mazandarani language

Mazanderani
Mazänderuni مازرونی Tabäri تبری
Native to	Iran, province of Mazandaran and parts of the provinces of gilan, Alborz, Tehran, Semnan and Golestan
Region	South coast of the Caspian Sea
Native speakers	7.4 Mazani speakers taht are Mazani themself & 11.47 million in total counting the Mazanized people who are mostly Mazanized Farsi people. (2023)
Language family	Indo-European Indo-Iranian Iranian Western Iranian Northwestern Iranian Caspian Mazanderani
Dialects	Meiani Shahmirzadi Gorgani
Writing system	Mazandarani alphabet
Official status
Regulated by	Linguistic faculty of Mazani Universities officially gathers materials and resources about it.
Language codes
ISO 639-3	Either: mzn – Mazanderani srz – Shahmirzadi
Areas where Mazanderani is spoken as mother tongue

Mazandarani (in Mazandarani: ماٚٓزنی) is a Iranian language. It is spoken in northern Iran. Areas that use it are: Mazandaran, parts of gilan, west of Golestan, north of Tehran and Semnan and northeast of Qazvin. Mazandarni is one of the oldest Irani languages.

Script and alphabet

Mazandarani language was written in the Pahlavi alphabet in the early centuries of Islam. The language uses the Arabic alphabet.

Literature

Mazandarni language has the oldest literature among local languages in Iran. Among books written in this language are:

• Translation of Quran
• Marzbananme
• Nikiname