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Tati (Persian
Persian language

name=Persian|nativename=|pronunciation=[f??r'si]|image=|caption=Farsi in Perso-Arabic script |states= Iran, Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, and Bahrain....
: ????) is a group of northwestern Iranian dialects which are closely related to 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....
.

Some sources use the term old Azari/Azeri to refer to the Tati language which was spoken in the region before the spread of Turkic languages (see Ancient Azari language
Ancient Azari language

Azari, also spelled Adari, Adhari, is the name used for the Iranian languages composed of groups of dialects which were spoken in Azerbaijan at one time....
), and is now only spoken by different rural communities in Iranian Azerbaijan (such as villages in Harzanabad area, villages around Khalkhal
Khalkhal

Khalkhal or Khalkhal may refer to:*Xalxal, Nakhchivan, Azerbaijan*Xalxal, Oghuz, Azerbaijan*Khalkhal County, a subdivision of Ardabil Province, Iran...
 and Ardabil
Ardabil

Ardabil is a historical city in north-western Iran. The name Ardabil probably comes from the Zoroastrian name of "Artavil" which means a holy place....
), and also in Zanjan
Zanjan Province

Zanjan is a provinces of Iran located in the North-West Iran with the Zanjan being its center. Zanjan province with an area of 36,400 km? has a mostly rural, population of 1.7 million....
 and Qazvin
Qazvin Province

Qazvin is one of the 30 provinces of Iran of Iran. It is in the north-west of the country, and its center is Qazvin . The province was created in 1996 out of part of Zanjan Province and includes 20 cities: Qazvin, Takestan, Abyek, Bou'in-Zahra, Eqhbalieh, Mohammadieh, Alvand, Esfarvarin, Mahmood Abad Nemooneh, Khoram Dasht, Zi? Ab...
 provinces.






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Tati (Persian
Persian language

name=Persian|nativename=|pronunciation=[f??r'si]|image=|caption=Farsi in Perso-Arabic script |states= Iran, Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, and Bahrain....
: ????) is a group of northwestern Iranian dialects which are closely related to 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....
.

Some sources use the term old Azari/Azeri to refer to the Tati language which was spoken in the region before the spread of Turkic languages (see Ancient Azari language
Ancient Azari language

Azari, also spelled Adari, Adhari, is the name used for the Iranian languages composed of groups of dialects which were spoken in Azerbaijan at one time....
), and is now only spoken by different rural communities in Iranian Azerbaijan (such as villages in Harzanabad area, villages around Khalkhal
Khalkhal

Khalkhal or Khalkhal may refer to:*Xalxal, Nakhchivan, Azerbaijan*Xalxal, Oghuz, Azerbaijan*Khalkhal County, a subdivision of Ardabil Province, Iran...
 and Ardabil
Ardabil

Ardabil is a historical city in north-western Iran. The name Ardabil probably comes from the Zoroastrian name of "Artavil" which means a holy place....
), and also in Zanjan
Zanjan Province

Zanjan is a provinces of Iran located in the North-West Iran with the Zanjan being its center. Zanjan province with an area of 36,400 km? has a mostly rural, population of 1.7 million....
 and Qazvin
Qazvin Province

Qazvin is one of the 30 provinces of Iran of Iran. It is in the north-west of the country, and its center is Qazvin . The province was created in 1996 out of part of Zanjan Province and includes 20 cities: Qazvin, Takestan, Abyek, Bou'in-Zahra, Eqhbalieh, Mohammadieh, Alvand, Esfarvarin, Mahmood Abad Nemooneh, Khoram Dasht, Zi? Ab...
 provinces. .

In the field of phonetics tati similar to the rest of the north-western Iranian languages: it is distinguished by the persistence of Iranian * z, * s, * y-, * v-against the south-western d, h, j-, b-; development /?/<* j, * against the south-west z, and the preservation of intervocalic and postvocalic * r and even, for a number of dialects, development Rhotacism
Rhotacism

Rhotacism may refer to several phenomena related to the usage of the consonant r .*the excessive or idiosyncratic use of the r;*conversely, the inability or difficulty in pronouncing r....
.

In the field of morphology, tati is less analytical in structure than the south-western Iranian languages. Having lost the ancient foundations of classes and verb, tati preserved case (two case: direct, or subjective, and oblique). It is a gender neutral language except in some name and verb formations.

Tati is an ergative language, i.e. with transitive verbs the subject/agent of the verb is expressed by the direct case in the present tenses, but by the oblique in the past tenses, whereas the direct object/patient in the present tenses is expressed by the oblique, but by the direct in the past.

See also

  • Xo'ini dialect
  • Kilit language
    Kilit language

    The Kilit language belongs to the northern Tati family of Northwestern Iranian languages branch, once spoken in the village Kilit, located 12 kilometers southwest from the city of Ordubad in a Ordubad Rayon with the same name of Nakhjavan in Azerbaijan ....


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