The Mazandarani people are a northwestern Iranian ethnic group found primarily in the provinces of Mazandaran and Golestan (formerly part of Mazandaran), as well as Gilan, Tehran and Semnan provinces, whose indigenous language is a branch of Iranian language called Mazandarani.
Language
The Mazandarani language is closely related to Gilaki and the two languages have similar vocabularies. Notably, the language did not come under the influence of other incoming languages such as Arabic and Turkish. According to Ethnologue, there were more than three million native speakers of Mazandarani in 1993 speaking different dialects such as Gorgani, Ghadikolahi, and Palani[1]
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