Indo-European family
Mazandarani
c. 1000 CE – today Living
Mazandarani (c. 1000 CE – today) is a living Indo-European language. Lineage: Proto-Indo-European → Proto-Indo-Iranian → Proto-Iranian → Mazandarani.
See Mazandarani on the interactive map- Speakers
- 2.3M (2,300,000)
- ISO 639-3
- mzn
Caspian (Northwestern Iranian) language of Mazandaran, Iran; literary texts from the 10th–15th c. Closely related to Gilaki.
Lineage
- Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4,500 BCE – 2,500 BCE
- Proto-Indo-Iranianc. 2,500 BCE – 1,800 BCE
- Proto-Iranianc. 1,800 BCE – 1,000 BCE
- Mazandaranic. 1000 CE – today
Sister languages 16
Also descended from Proto-Iranian.