Caspian languages

Caspian
Caspian
Geographic; distribution	South coast of the Caspian Sea
Linguistic classification	Indo-European Indo-Iranian Iranian Western Iranian Northwestern Iranian Caspian; ; ; ; ;
Subdivisions	Daylami†; Gilaki; Talysh; Manzanderani; Semnani; Tati;
Language codes
Glottolog	casp1236
	The Caspian and Semnani languages

The Caspian languages are a branch of Northwestern Iranian languages spoken in northern Iran and south-eastern Azerbaijan, south of the Caspian Sea. They are unique in that they share certain typological features with South Caucasian languages.^[1]^[2]^[3]

Languages

Caspian languages include:

^ 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.
^ Academic American Encyclopedia By Grolier Incorporated, page 294
^ The Tati language group in the sociolinguistic context of Northwestern Iran and Transcaucasia By D.Stilo, pages 137-185

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Caspian
Geographic distribution	South coast of the Caspian Sea
Linguistic classification	Indo-European Indo-Iranian Iranian Western Iranian Northwestern Iranian Caspian
Subdivisions	Daylami† Gilaki Talysh Manzanderani Semnani Tati
Language codes
Glottolog	`casp1236`
The Caspian and Semnani languages