Local name: | Gilaki |
Language family: | Indo-European > Indo-Iranian > Iranian > Western Iranian > Northwestern Iranian > Caspian |
Native speakers: | ~ 3.3 millions (Ethnologue.com, 1993) |
Script: | A modified version of the Arabic alphabet (if written) |
Official in: | Not official. |
Spoken mostly in: | Iran (esp. the provinces Gilan and Mazandaran) |
Gilaki belongs, together with Mazandarani, to the Caspian languages. Those are Iranian languages spoken at the southern coast of the Caspian Sea, north of the Alborz mountain range.
Even though Gilaki and Persian
belong to different branches of the Iranian languages,
they belong to the same cultural zone, where Persian is
the dominant player, and Persian has therefore had a
great influence on Gilaki, and many words have been
borrowed. The verbs and the verb system has been very
resistant to this influence, though.
Gilaki: “Šomāle bād va āftāb”
Speaker: Padideh
Age at recording: 31
(2013) Geographical reference:
Kohne Gurāb, Gilān, IR (Google Map) Linguistic background: Padideh
grew up speaking both Persian and Gilaki Transcription scheme: Based on
Unipers Transcription scheme:
Based on Unipers
Ušān hamdigare amra kenār bamoyid ke ki zudtar tane ane bāšloqa az ane ru usane.
Šomāle bād bā tamāme xu qudrat fui baze, vali harči ki bištar fui zayi marday bištar xu bāšloqa xore časbāneyi, ta šomāle bād das bakeše.
Dar natije āftāb jolo bamo va enqad garm o nurāni betabese va mardāy majbur bubose xu bāšloqa az xu tan birun bavare.
Šomāle bād qabul bukude ki āftāb qavitare.