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Gazi language

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Gazi
Native toIran
Native speakers
several thousand[1] (2000)[2]
Indo-European
Dialects
  • Gazi proper
  • Sedehi
  • Ardestani
  • Nohuji
  • Sajzi
  • Jarquya'i
  • Rudashti
  • Kafrudi
  • Kafruni
  • Judeo-Esfahani (Judeo-Median of Esfahan)
  • Kuhpa'i?
Language codes
ISO 639-3gzi
Glottologgazi1243
ELPGazi

Gazi is one of the Central Iranian varieties of Iran, one of five listed in Ethnologue that together have 35,000 speakers.

Sources differ on whether Zefra'i is a dialect of Gazi or of Nayini.

References

  1. ^ Ethnologue 17 gives a figure of 7,030. However, this is a guestimate based on 35,000 speakers divided among five recognized languages.
  2. ^ Gazi at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)