Mazandarani language

Mazanderani
Mazänderuni مازرونی Tabäri تبری
Native to	Iran, province of Mazandaran and parts of the provinces of Alborz, Tehran, Semnan and Golestan
Region	South coast of the Caspian Sea
Native speakers	(3.3 million cited 1993)
Language family	Indo-European Indo-Iranian Iranian Western Iranian Northwestern Iranian Caspian Mazanderani
Dialects	Mazanderani Shahmirzadi Gorgani†
Writing system	Persian alphabet
Official status
Regulated by	None. but Linguistic faculty of Mazanderan University 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: Mäzeruni) is a Iranian language. It is spoken in northern Iran. Areas that use it are: Mazandaran, west of Golestan, north of Tehran and Semnan and northeast of Qazvin. Between 3-4 million people speak it. Mazandarni is an older Iranian language.

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