Harzandi or Harzani ( Tati : هرزندی، هرزنی ) is a dialect of the Tati language , spoken in the northern regions of the East Azarbaijan province of Iran . It is strictly an oral language, and a descendant of the Old Azeri language that has long been extinct as a result of the diffusion of Turkish in the area. Harzandi has many common linguistic features with both Talysh and Zaza and was positioned between the Talysh and Zaza .
5-596: Harzani Tati is considered an endangered language with a little less than 30,000 speakers in present day. Its speakers principally reside in the rural district of Harzand , particularly in the village known as Galin Qayah . Harzani is also present in the neighboring villages of Babratein and Dash Harzand . As of now, Harzani has not been formally recognized by the Islamic Republic of Iran, and thus receives no government support. Source: Like other languages and dialects of
10-639: Is its change from an intervocalic /d/ to an /r/. It also has a tendency to lengthen its vowels. For instance, it has the closed vowel /oe/. Nouns and pronouns in Harzani do not reflect grammatical gender , but they do express case . Nouns, in particular, encode two cases: direct and oblique case , the first of which is not rendered morphologically, but the second is by attaching a suffix. Meanwhile, personal pronouns have three cases: direct, oblique, and possessive . Verbs in Harzani are inflected for present tense and past tense. Information concerning person and number
15-457: Is reflected in suffixes that attach to these two verb stems. Modal and aspectual information is expressed using prefixes. Part of Harzani's counting system is as follows: Harzandat-e Gharbi Rural District Harzandat-e Gharbi Rural District ( Persian : دهستان هرزندات غربي ) is in the Central District of Marand County , East Azerbaijan province, Iran . Its capital is
20-480: The Iranian language family, Harzani follows a subject–object–verb (SOV) word order. It has nine vowels, and shares a consonant inventory with Persian . It further exhibits a split-ergative case system: its present tense is structured to follow nominative-accusative patterning, while its past tense follows ergative-absolutive . One characteristic that distinguishes Harzani from related Northwestern Iranian languages
25-473: The village of Galin Qayah . At the time of the 2006 National Census, the rural district's population was 6,194 in 1,633 households. There were 5,652 inhabitants in 1,818 households at the following census of 2011. The 2016 census measured the population of the rural district as 5,094 in 1,759 households. The most populous of its 13 villages was Galin Qayah , with 1,990 people. [REDACTED] Iran portal This Marand County location article
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