Ashtiani language

Ashtiani
Native to Iran
Native speakers
21,000 (2000)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 atn
Glottolog asht1244[2]

Ashtiani is one of the Central Iranian languages,[3] spoken in Ashtiyan and Tafresh of Iran.

It is sometimes seen as a transitional dialect between central Iranian languages and Talysh and is very close to Vafsi. Its speakers are also bilingual in Persian and are Muslim.[4]

References

  1. Ashtiani at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Ashtiani". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  3. Ethnologue
  4. "Ashtiyani, the dialect of Ashtian" in Encyclopedia Iranica by E. Yarshater Archived November 17, 2011, at the Wayback Machine.


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