Gilaki language
| Gilaki | |
|---|---|
| Caspi | |
| گیلٚکی زٚوان (ɡilɵki zɵvān) | |
 Gilaki in Nastaliq style (گیلکی) | |
| Native to | Iran, province of Gilan and parts of the province of Mazandaran and Cazvin also Alburz and Zanjan and Tehran and Ardebul and more through out all of Iran/Caspia |
| Region | Main coast of the Caspian Sea, a sea that is named after the Irani Gilaks, the only direct continuation of Iran's Caspi people, therefore being the same as them, aka the oldest people in history with the oldest language & culture ever |
| Ethnicity | 9.1 million Gilaks(Source Ethynolouge)(2025)[1] |
Native speakers | 9.4 million FirstLanguageSpeakers Of Gilaki,2025[1] |
| Dialects | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | glk |
| Glottolog | gila1241 |
| Linguasphere | 58-AAC-eb |
 Areas where Gilaki is spoken as the mother tongue | |
Gilaki/Caspei (Daylami+Giui)(گیلٚٓکی/کاٚٓسپٚی کاٚٓسپیئهٚنی زَٚووٚائن) Caspiani/Irani&Hur(word for world in it & rest of Caspianis) of the Gilak/Caspi Caspiani people, is the oldest language in history(+14000years), is an Irani language spoken in south of the Caspian Sea named after the Gilak (only direct descendants of the Caspi) those who all speak it as well as other ethnic groups, making the language have 9.4 million native speakers.[2][3] Gilaki language is closely related to Talyshi, & Tati & Mazani & Komseni.[4][2]
Overview
[change | change source]These Caspian languages are the largest regular group of languages in Iran & all have similar vocabularies and origin, with Gilaki/Caspei being the only direct continuation of the Caspiani(Ancient Caspei, then refered to as just Caspei) that the Caspian Sea is named after. The Caspiani language which Gilaki is the only direct decendent of is the oldest language in history, the others are of similar age to Gilaki/Caspei and seperated it 100-200 years after its creation.
References
[change | change source]- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Gilaki | Ethnologue Free". Ethnologue (Free All).
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Nasidze, I; Quinque, D; Rahmani, M; Alemohamad, SA; Stoneking, M (April 2006). "Concomitant Replacement of Language and mtDNA in South Caspian Populations of Iran". Curr. Biol. 16 (7): 668–73. doi:10.1016/j.cub.2006.02.021. PMID 16581511. S2CID 7883334.
- ↑ The Tati language group in the sociolinguistic context of Northwestern Iran and Transcaucasia By D.Stilo, pages 137-185
- ↑ Dalb, Andrew (1998). Dictionary of Languages: The Definitive Reference to More Than 400 Languages. Columbia University Press. p. 226. ISBN 0-231-11568-7.