Tat language (Caucasus)

Tat
zuhun tati, зугьун тати
Native toAzerbaijan, Dagestan (Russia)
RegionCaucasus
EthnicityTats, Armeno-Tats
Native speakers
34,000 excluding Judeo-Tat (2011–2020 census)[1]
Official status
Official language in
 Russia
Language codes
ISO 639-3ttt
Glottologcauc1242  Caucasian Tat
musl1236  Muslim Tat
Linguasphere58-AAC-g

Tat, also known as Caucasian Persian,[4] Tat/Tati Persian,[5][6] or Caucasian Tat,[4] is a Southwestern Iranian language closely related to,[7] but not fully mutually intelligible[8] with Persian and spoken by the Tats in Azerbaijan and Russia. There is also an Iranian language called Judeo-Tat spoken by Mountain Jews.

  1. ^ Tat at Ethnologue (26th ed., 2023) Closed access icon
  2. ^ Windfuhr, Gernot. The Iranian Languages. Routledge. 2009. p. 417.
  3. ^ Constitution of the Republic of Dagestan: Chapter I, Article 11: "The state languages of the Republic of Dagestan are Russian and the languages of the peoples of Dagestan."
  4. ^ a b Tonoyan, Artyom (2019). "On the Caucasian Persian (Tat) Lexical Substratum in the Baku Dialect of Azerbaijani. Preliminary Notes". Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft. 169 (2): 367–368. doi:10.13173/zeitdeutmorggese.169.2.0367. S2CID 211660063.
  5. ^ Gernot Windfuhr, "Persian Grammar: history and state of its study", Walter de Gruyter, 1979. pg 4:""Tat- Persian spoken in the East Caucasus""
  6. ^ Windfuhr, Genot (2013). Iranian Languages. Routledge. p. 417. ISBN 978-1135797041. The Northwestern outpost of Persian is Caucasian Tat Persian (...)
  7. ^ Gruenberg, Alexander. (1966). Tatskij jazyk [The Tat language]. In Vinogradov, V. V. (ed.), Jazyki narodov SSSR. Volume 1: Indoevropejskie jazyki, 281-301
  8. ^ Authier, Gilles (2012). Grammaire juhuri, ou judéo-tat, langue iranienne des Juifs du Caucase de l'est. Wiesbaden: Reichert