The Tat people of Iran ( Tati: ''Irünə Tâtün'', ) are an

Iranian people Iranians or Iranian people may refer to: * Iranian peoples, Indo-European ethno-linguistic group living predominantly in Iran and other parts of the Middle East and the Caucasus, as well as parts of Central Asia and South Asia ** Persians, Irania ...

living in northern

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, especially in Qazvin province. Tats of Iran use the Tati language, a group of

northwestern Iranian The Western Iranic languages are a branch of the Iranic languages, attested from the time of Old Persian (6th century BC) and Median. Languages The traditional Northwestern branch is a convention for non-Southwestern languages, rather than a ge ...

dialects which are closely related to the

Talysh language The Talysh language (زبان تالشی, Tolışə Zıvon, Tолышә зывон), 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 Aze ...

. Persian and Azerbaijani are also spoken. Tats of Iran are mainly

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and number about 300,000."Azari, the Old Iranian Language of Azerbaijan," Encyclopaedia Iranica, op. cit., Vol. III/2, 1987 by E. Yarshater. External link

/ref> Starting from the Middle Ages, the term ''Tati'' was used not only for the Caucasus but also for northwestern Iran, where it was extended to almost all of the local Iranian languages except Persian and Kurdish language, Kurdish. Currently, the term ''Tati'' and ''Tati language'' is used to refer to a particular group of north-western Iranian dialects (Chali, Danesfani, Hiaraji, Hoznini, Esfarvarini, Takestani, Sagzabadi, Ebrahimabadi, Eshtehardi, Hoini, Kajali, Shahroudi, Harzani) in Iranian Azerbaijan, as well as south of it in the provinces of

Qazvin Qazvin (; fa, قزوین, , also Romanized as ''Qazvīn'', ''Qazwin'', ''Kazvin'', ''Kasvin'', ''Caspin'', ''Casbin'', ''Casbeen'', or ''Ghazvin'') is the largest city and capital of the Province of Qazvin in Iran. Qazvin was a capital of the ...

and Zanjan. These dialects have a certain affinity to the

, Mazanderani language and may be descendants of the extinct Old Azari language.تات

Notable Tat people

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, Iranian footballer who plays for

and

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References

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Iranica entry on ''Eshtehārdi'', one of Tati dialectsSample of the Gozarkhani language
{{Ethnic groups in Iran Iranian ethnic groups Ethnic groups in Iran Qazvin Province

Notable Tat people

See also

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