Mazandarani language

Mazanderani
Mazäni مازنی Tabäri طبری
Native to	Iran, province of Mazandaran and parts of the provinces of Gilan, Alborz, Tehran, Semnan and Golestan and North Khorasan and Qom and Qazvin
Region	South coast of the Caspian Sea
Native speakers	17.51 Mazani speakers that are Mazani themself & 20.43 million in total counting the Mazanized people who are mostly Mazanized Fars & Turkmen people. (2023)
Language family	Indo-European Indo-Iranian Iranian Western Iranian Northwestern Iranian Caspian Mazanderani
Dialects	Meiani Shahmirzadi Gorgani
Writing system	Mazandarani alphabet
Official status
Regulated by	Linguistic faculty of Mazani Universities officially gathers materials and resources about it.
Language codes
ISO 639-3	Either: mzn – Mazanderani srz – Shahmirzadi
Areas where Mazanderani is spoken as mother tongue

Mazandarani is a language with 20.43 native speakers and 17.51 native Mazandarani speakers as of 2025, it is also known as Mazani, Mazeruni, Tabaristani, Tabarei, Goleshi, Geleki, Mazandaruani, Mazandaruni, Tabari, aka combonation of Hyecen/Gorgani/Varkani&Tapuri/Tapori/Tapouri (in Mazandarani: ماٚٓزنی). It is spoken in Caspie region of Iran. Areas that use it are: Mazandaran & Golestan, & Tehran all mainly & Semnan & Qazvin & Alborz & Gilan & Qum partly. Mazandarni is the 2nd oldest language in the world after Gilaki, their difference is 100 years or so.

Script and alphabet

Mazandarani language was written in the Pahlavi alphabet in the early centuries of Islam. The language uses the Mazani alphabet.

Literature

Mazandarni language has the oldest literature among local languages in Iran. Among books written in this language are:

• Translation of Anything almost
• Marzbananme
• Nikiname