Gilaki

156 km away

A highly endangered Romani variety spoken in and around the village of Zargar in Qazvin province of north-western Iran, west of Tehran. The community is traditionally said to have been settled in the Safavid period and is one of the easternmost Romani-speaking populations on record; the dialect retains a Romani lexical core but shows heavy contact influence from Persian and Azerbaijani Turkish in phonology, vocabulary, and grammar. Speaker numbers are small and intergenerational transmission has weakened sharply.

176 km away

A northwestern Iranian language straddling the Iran-Azerbaijan border in the Lankaran region. The largest northern variety is in Azerbaijan; the southern variety in Iran is more conservative.

304 km away

The Azerbaijani of north-western Iran, centred on Tabriz. The most-spoken Azerbaijani variety; uses a Perso-Arabic script and shows long contact with Persian.

318 km away

A northwestern Iranian language of Iran's Caspian province of Mazandaran, around Sari and Babol. Closely related to Gilaki, with around three million speakers.

349 km away

The Oghuz Turkic language of Azerbaijan, centred on Baku. Closely related to Turkish; written in a Latin-based alphabet since the post-Soviet reform.

361 km away

An older and distinctive Kurdish variety spoken in pockets along the Iran-Iraq border, rich in classical poetic tradition.