Talysh people

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Talysh people

Talysh (also Talishi, Taleshi or Talyshi) are an Iranian people who speak the Talysh language

Talysh language

The Talyshi language is a Northwestern Iranian languages spoken in the northern regions of the Iranian provinces of Gilan Province and Ardabil Province and the southern regions of the Republic of Azerbaijan....
, one of the Northwestern Iranian languages

Iranian languages

The Iranian languages are a branch of the Indo-European languages and its subfamily, Indo-Iranian languages. These languages are mainly spoken by the Iranian Peoples....
. It is spoken in the northern regions of the Iran

Iran

Iran , officially the Islamic Republic of Iran and formerly known internationally as Persian Empire until 1935, is a country in Central Eurasia, located on the northeastern shore of the Persian Gulf and the southern shore of the Caspian Sea....
ian provinces of Gilan

Gilan Province

Gilan is one of the provinces of Iran of Iran. It lies along the Caspian Sea, just west of the province of Mazandaran, east of the province of Ardabil province, north of the provinces of Zanjan province and Qazvin province....
and Ardabil

Ardabil Province

Ardabil is one of the Azerbaijani language inhabited provinces of Iran located in the North-West Iran and its center is Ardabil . It is in the north-west of the country, bordering the Azerbaijan and the provinces of East Azarbaijan, Zanjan Province, and Guilan....
and the southern parts of the Republic of Azerbaijan

Azerbaijan

Azerbaijan , officially the Republic of Azerbaijan , is the largest and most populous country in the South Caucasus, located partially in Eastern Europe and partially in Western Asia....
. Northern Talysh (the part in the Republic of Azerbaijan) was historically known as Talish-i Gushtasbi

Talish-i Gushtasbi

Talish-i Gushtasbi is the historical name of the northern Talysh people area, presently a part of the Republic of Azerbaijan. People of northern Talysh are of Iranian stock and speak a northwestern Iranian language called Talysh language....
.
sh has two major mutually intelligible dialects — Northern (in Azerbaijan and Iran), and Southern (in Iran).

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Talysh (also Talishi, Taleshi or Talyshi) are an Iranian people who speak the Talysh language

Talysh language

Iranian languages

Iran

Gilan Province

Ardabil Province

Azerbaijan

Talish-i Gushtasbi

Language

Talysh has two major mutually intelligible dialects — Northern (in Azerbaijan and Iran), and Southern (in Iran). According to Ethnologue

Ethnologue

Ethnologue: Languages of the World is a web and print publication of SIL International , a Christianity linguistics service organization, which studies lesser-known languages, primarily to provide the speakers with Bibles, in their native language....
, Azerbaijani

Azerbaijani language

Azerbaijani is a language belonging to the Turkic languages language family, spoken in southwestern Asia, primarily in Azerbaijan and northwestern Iran....
is used as literary language and speakers also use Azerbaijani. There are no statistical data on the numbers of Talysh-speakers in Iran, but estimates show their number to be around 1 million. According to Ethnologue some 800,000 Talysh live in the Republic of Azerbaijan , bringing the worldwide Talysh population close to 912,000 people. In the thesis Positive Orientation Towards the Vernacular among the Talysh of Sumgayit the number of Talyshs speakers in 2003 is estimated to be at least 400,000 in the Republic of Azerbaijan. According to the official census of the Republic of Azerbaijan, whose figures are in dispute by Talysh nationalists, the number of Talysh people in the Republic of Azerbaijan is 80,000. . According to some sources, the Azerbaijani government has also implemented a policy of forceful integration of all minorities, including Talysh

Talysh

Talysh may refer to:*Talysh people*Talysh language*Talysh Khanate*Talysh-Mughan Autonomous Republic - a self-declared autonomy, which existed briefly in the south of Azerbaijan in 1993...
, Tat

Tats

The Tat are an Iranian languages-speaking ethnic group in the Caucasus. The Muslim Tats are considered an Iranian peoples ethnic group in the Caucasus and the Jewish Tats have adopted the language of Tat language in ancient times....
, and Lezgins

Lezgins

The Lezgins are an ethnic group, living predominantly in southern Dagestan and north-eastern Azerbaijan, who speak the Lezgian language.In the 19th century, the term was used more broadly for all ethnic groups speaking Northeast Caucasian languages, including Avars, Laks, and many others....
.. However, in a view of Hema Kotecha “the attitude towards any separatist tendencies seems predominantly negative” among Talyshs. According to Svante E. Cornell: Whereas officially the number of Lezgins registered as such is around 180,000, the Lezgins claim that the number of Lezgins registered as Azerbaijani is many times higher than this figure, some accounts showing over 700,000 Lezgins in Azerbaijan. These figures are denied by the Azerbaijani government but in private many Azeris acknowledge the fact that Lezgins- for that matter Talysh or the Tat population of Azerbaijan is far higher than the official figure. .

Major Ethnic Groups of Iran

History

The Talishis generally identify themselves with the ancient Cadusians, who inhabited the area to the southwest of Caspian sea, bounded on the north by Kura river, including modern provinces of Ardabil and Zanjan. The name of Talishi can be etymologically related to Cadusi.