| Bie Pas Gilaki | |
|---|---|
| Western Gilaki | |
| بيه پسي گيلکي (Bie Pөsi Gilөki) | |
 Gilaki in Nastaliq style (گیلکی) | |
Native speakers | 2.55 million (2021) [1] |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | glk |
| Glottolog | gila1241 |
| Linguasphere | 58-AAC-eb |
Western [2] or Bie Pas Gilaki [3] is a dialect of the Gilaki language spoken in the western portion of Gilan province, Iran.
The Gilaki language consists of three dialects; Western (Bie Pas), Eastern (Bie Pish) and Galeshi (Deylami). [4] Bie Pas Gilaki is spoken west of Sepid Rud river. [5]
According to Glottolog, Western Gilaki is the predominant dialect in Fuman, Rasht and Bandar-e Anzali. [2] According to the scholar and geographer Manouchehr Sotoudeh, Bie Pas Gilaki is spoken in Chahar Farizeh (Bandar-e Anzali), Gaskar/Ziabar), Kasma, Tulem (Sowme'eh Sara), Shaft, Sangar (Rasht) and Lasht-e Nesha. [6]
Gilan Province is one of the 31 provinces of Iran, in the northwest of the country. It lies along the Caspian Sea, in Iran's Region 3, west of the province of Mazandaran, east of the province of Ardabil, and north of the provinces of Zanjan and Qazvin. It borders Azerbaijan in the north.
Bandar-e Anzali, also Romanized as Bandar-e Anzalī, formerly Bandar-e Pahlavi during the Pahlavi dynasty, is a city in the Central District of Bandar-e Anzali County, Gilan province, Iran, serving as the capital of both the county and the district.
Rasht is a city in the Central District of Rasht County, Gilan province, in Iran. Rasht serves as capital of the province, the county, and the district. The city is also known as the "City of Rain" and, with a population of 679,995 in 2016, is the most populous city of northern Iran.
Gilaks are an Iranian ethnic group native to the south of Caspian sea. They form one of the main ethnic groups residing in the northern parts of Iran. Gilak people, along with the closely related Mazandarani people, comprise part of the Caspian people, who inhabit the southern and southwestern coastal regions of the Caspian Sea.
Mazandarani is an Iranian language of the Northwestern branch spoken by the Mazandarani people. As of 2021, there were 1.36 million native speakers. The language appears to be decreasing, as it is threatened, and due to the majority of it's speakers shifting to Iranian Persian. As a member of the Northwestern branch, etymologically speaking, it is rather closely related to Gilaki and also related to Persian, which belongs to the Southwestern branch. Though the Persian language has influenced Mazandarani to a great extent, Mazandarani still survives as an independent language with a northwestern Iranian origin.
Gilaki is an Iranian language of the Northwestern branch, spoken in south of Caspian Sea by Gilak people. Gilaki is closely related to Mazandarani. The two languages of Gilaki and Mazandarani have similar vocabularies. The Gilaki and Mazandarani languages share certain typological features with Caucasian languages, reflecting the history, ethnic identity, and close relatedness to the Caucasus region and Caucasian peoples of the Gilak people and Mazandarani people.
Talysh is a Northwestern Iranian language spoken in the northern regions of the Iranian provinces of Gilan and Ardabil and the southern regions of the Republic of Azerbaijan by around 500,000-800,000 people. Talysh language is closely related to the Tati language. It includes many dialects usually divided into three main clusters: Northern, Central (Iran) and Southern (Iran). Talysh is partially, but not fully, intelligible with Persian. Talysh is classified as "vulnerable" by UNESCO's Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger.
The Western Iranian languages or Western Iranic languages are a branch of the Iranian languages, attested from the time of Old Persian and Median.
Rudbar, also Romanized as Rudbār, is a city in the Central District of Rudbar County, Gilan province, Iran, serving as capital of both the county and the district.
Qazvin County is in Qazvin province, Iran. Its capital is the city of Qazvin.
Bandar-e Anzali County, formerly Bandar-e Pahlavi County, is in Gilan province, in northwestern Iran. Its capital is the city of Bandar-e Anzali.
Northern Iran, is a geographical term that refers to a relatively large and fertile area, consisting of the southern border of the Caspian Sea and the Alborz mountains.
Sowme'eh Sara, also Romanized as Şowme‘eh Sarā, Somee Sara, Şowma‘eh Sarā, Şūme‘eh Sarā, Sumehsara, and Sumesera, is a city in the Central District of Sowme'eh Sara County, Gilan province, Iran, serving as capital of both the county and the district. The city is on the south coast of the Caspian Sea, about 25 kilometres (16 mi) west of Rasht.
Fuman, also Romanized as Fooman, Fūman, and Fumen, is a city in the Central District of Fuman County in Iran's northwestern Gilan province, serving as capital of both the county and the district.
Khomam, also Romanized as Khomām and Khemam; also known as Bāzār Khomām and Bāzār-i-Khuman, is a city in the Central District of Khomam County, Gilan province, Iran, serving as the capital of both the county and the district.
Alamut or Rudbar is a region in Iran including western and eastern parts on the western edge of the Alborz (Elburz) range, between the dry and barren plain of Qazvin in the south and the densely forested slopes of the Mazandaran province in the north. Starting from Qazvin toward Alamut, passing through the first range of hills, curvatures, forms, are significant themes in nature's composition of this area. The famous Ismaili castle of Alamut and numerous others are in this area, which served as the heartland of the state founded by Hassan-i Sabbah.
Gīlān is an Iranian province at the southwestern coast of the Caspian Sea. This articles discusses its history.
Galeshi, Rudbari or Deylami is a dialect of the Gilaki language spoken in the mountains of southern and south-eastern Gilan and western Mazandaran.
Eastern or Bie Pish Gilaki is a dialect of the Gilaki language spoken in the eastern portion of Gilan and western Mazandaran, Iran.
Tatoid dilalects are dialects of the Tati language spoken in the Iranian provinces of Gilan, Qazvin and Alborz. Tatoid two Tati like ofshoots: Rudbari, Taleghani and Alamuti. Tatoid includes the Rudbari, Taleghani and Alamuti dialects. According to Stilo, this special status for this recent type is that these two varieties were originally Tatic which, under the intense influences of Caspian and Persian, have lost all their Tatic grammatical structures.
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