Mazanderani language

High school (ages 12+)
People & Society

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https://smallwhale.org/articles/mazanderani-language

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1. Where is Mazanderani language?Mazandaran Province, northern Iran, along the southern coast of the Caspian Sea
2. What language do people speak in Mazanderani language?Northwestern Iranian language
3. What is the population of speakers?1.35 million native speakers (as of 2023)
4. What is the typological features?Shares certain features with South Caucasian languages, distinct from other Iranian languages
5. How many people speak Mazanderani?About 1.35 million people speak Mazanderani as their first language, according to recent counts.
6. Why is Mazanderani considered threatened?Many young people are learning Persian instead, so fewer families use Mazanderani at home, which can make the language harder to keep alive.

Northwestern Iranian Languages: A subgroup of Iranian languages, including Mazanderani, Gilaki, and Kurdish, spoken in northwestern Iran and surrounding areas.
Typological Features: Characteristics of a language's structure, such as word order or grammatical systems, that can be compared across different languages.
Intergenerational Transmission: The process by which a language is passed down from parents to their children and subsequent generations.