Gorgani dialect

Gorgani
Spoken in	Iran
Region	NW Iran
Native speakers	Unknown  (date missing)
Language family	Indo-European Indo-Iranian Iranian Western Northwestern Mazandarani Gorgani
Language codes
ISO 639-3	–

Gorgani is a dialect^[1] (or a locally spoken sub-language) of the Tabarian (Mazandarani) language^[2]

Etymology

The dilect is named after Gorgan historical district derived from Old Persian Varkana (Greek Hyrkania)

Continuing use

Gorgani appears to be an extinct dialect^[3] though it is still referenced in current language codex's.^[4] The dialect is part of a group of languages known as Northwest Iranian, after their geographic distribution.^[5] Documents have been found dating back to the 14th and 15th centuries which consists of an extensive set of Horufi movement documents.

Gorgani is derived from origin of Title of "Ameer Taimur Gorgan", ruler of Turkeman. The word Gorgan means "Son-in-Law" in the Tatar language. Ameer Taimur Gorgan, after conquering Turk and Persian territories, built a city by the name of Gorgan. Language developed and spoken there is known as Gorgani and is an eastern dialect of Tabarian (Mazandarani) language. The city has since developed into the capital of Golestan province in the north of Iran.

Gorgani is considered an extinct dialect, the latest evidence of which consists of an extensive set of documents of the Horufi sect from the 14th and 15th centuries. The dialect is part of a group of languages known as Northwest Iranian, after their geographic distribution.

Gorgani is also used as title of tribe directly descendant of Ameer Taimur Gorgan. Emperor Zahir-ud-Din Muhammad Baber was the grand son of Ameer Taimur Gorgan who conquered and ruled India and this rule lasted till the revolution of year 1857 against the British East India Company, the last emperor of this dynasty was Bahadur Shah Zafar who was taken in to custody by the Britishers who put him in exile in Rangoon, Burma, where he died and buried. Two families of this tribe survived and migrated to areas now Pakistan, one of them is now living in Bahawalnagar District, Punjab, Pakistan, head of the family is Mirza Munawar Hussain Haider Gorgani.

References

1. ^ http://www.ethnologue.com/ethno_docs/introduction.asp#dialect Ethnologue definition for dialect.
2. ^ Lewis, M. Paul (ed.), 2009. Ethnologue: Languages of the World, Sixteenth edition. Dallas, Tex.: SIL International. Online version: http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=mzn
3. ^ Tbilisi, Georgia. "THIRD BIENNIAL CONVENTION ON IRANIAN STUDIES." WELCOMING SPEECHES, PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS and ABSTRACTS (2007): pp61. http://www.persianatesocieties.org/main/Tbilisi%20Convention.pdf
4. ^ http://multitree.linguistlist.org/codes/mzn-gor
5. ^ [1] see section Mazanderani

External links

• http://multitree.org/codes/mzn.html