Mazanderani people

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Mazanderani people
Mazandaranis
Religion
Majority:
Shia Islam
Minority:
Sunni Islam, Baháʼí Faith
Related ethnic groups
Iranian peoples

The Mazanderani people (Mazanderani: مازرونی مردمون), also known as the Tabari people or Tapuri people (Mazanderani: توری مردمون or تپوری مردمون), are an Iranian people[3][4][5] who are indigenous to the Caspian sea region of Iran. They are also referred to as Mazanis for short. They inhabit the southern coast of the Caspian Sea and are part of the historical region known as Tabaristan. The Alborz mountains mark the southern boundary of the area settled by the Mazanderani people.[6][7]

Traditional clothing of the Mazandarani people depicted on two Iranian stamps (1978)

People

The Mazanderani number was 4,480,000 in 2019 [8] The Mazanderani number between three

Shi'a Islam.[9]

Mazandarani people have a background in the Tabari ethnicity, and speak the Tabari language. Their origin goes back to

Tapuri people and Amardi people. Their land was called Tapuria or Tapurestan, the land of Tapuris.[10]

Most Mazanderanis live on the southeastern coast of the

South Caucasian peoples (e.g., the Georgians, Armenians, and Azerbaijanis).[1][11][12]

Language

Main article: Mazanderani language
Mazandaranis in Iran

The Mazanderani language is a Northwestern Iranian language spoken by the Mazanderani people; however, most Mazanderanis are also fluent in Persian.[6][9] The Gilaki and Mazanderani languages (but not other Iranian languages)[11] share certain typological features with Caucasian languages.[11]

With the growth of education and the media, the distinction between Mazanderani and other Iranian languages is likely to disappear.[6][9] Mazanderani is closely related to Gilaki and the two languages have similar vocabularies.[6] They preserve more of the noun declension system characteristic of older Iranian languages than Persian does.[6]

Assistant professor Maryam Borjian of Rutgers University states that Mazanderani has different sub-dialects and there is high mutual intelligibility among Mazanderani sub-dialects.[9]

The dialects of Mazanderani are Saravi, Amoli, Baboli, Ghaemshahri, Chalusi, Nuri, Shahsavari, Ghasrani, Shahmirzadi, Damavandi, Firoozkoohi, Astarabadi and Katouli. The native people of Sari, Qaem Shahr, Babol, Amol, Nowshahr, Chalus, and Tonekabon are Mazanderani people and speak the Mazanderani language.[13][14]

Genetics

See also: Genetic history of the Middle East

The Mazanderani and the closely related Gilaks occupy the south Caspian region of Iran and speak languages belonging to the North-Western branch of Iranian languages. It has been suggested that their ancestors came from the Caucasus region, perhaps displacing an earlier group in the South Caspian.[11] Linguistic evidence supports this scenario, in that the Gilaki and Mazanderani languages (but not other Iranian languages)[11] share certain typological features with Caucasian languages.[11]

Based on mtDNA HV1 sequences, the Gilaki and Mazanderani most closely resemble their geographic and linguistic neighbors, namely other Iranian groups. However, their Y chromosome types most closely resemble those found in groups from the South Caucasus.[11] Researchers have interpreted these differences as demonstrating that peoples from the Caucasus settled in the south Caspian area and mated with peoples from local Iranian groups, possibly because of patrilocality.[11] The Mazanderani and Gilaki groups are closely related on the male side with populations from the South Caucasus such as Georgians, Armenians, and Azerbaijanis.[11]

Haplogroups

Analysis of their

C5-M356 comprise the remainder, of less than 10% sampled.[15]

Notable figures

Main article:
List of Mazanderanis

Historic

Contemporary

Assimilated populations in Mazandaran

In the

Della Valle have written about their encounters with the Georgian, Circassian and Armenian Mazanderanis.[20]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c d Middle East Patterns: Places, Peoples, and Politics By Colbert C. Held, John Cummings, Mildred McDonald Held,2005, page 119.
  2. ^ a b Iran Provinces
  3. ^ Area handbook for Iran, Harvey Henry Smith, American University (Washington, D.C.), Foreign Area Studies, page 89
  4. ^ Academic American Encyclopedia By Grolier Incorporated, page 294
  5. ^ The World Book Encyclopedia, World Book, Inc, 2000, page 401
  6. ^
    ISBN 978-0-231-11568-1
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  7. ^ Ethnologue report for language code:mzn
  8. ^ "Mazandarani". 27 February 2020.
  9. ^ a b c d Borjian, Maryam (2005). "Bilingualism in Mazandaran: Peaceful Coexistence With Persian" (PDF). Language, Communities, and Education. Columbia University: 65–73. Archived from the original (PDF) on 21 September 2006.
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  11. ^
    S2CID 7883334
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  12. ^ Iran, Encarta Encyclopedia Iran. Archived 2009-10-28 at the Wayback Machine 2009-10-31.
  13. ^ "Spoken L1 Language: Mazanderani". Glottolog 4.6.
  14. ^ Windfuhr, G. L. (1989). "New Iranian languages: Overview". In Rüdiger Schmitt (ed.). Compendium linguarum Iranicarum. Wiesbaden: L. Reichert. p. 490.
  15. ^
    PMID 22815981
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  16. ^ R. Spencer Wells et al., "The Eurasian Heartland: A continental perspective on Y-chromosome diversity," Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (August 28, 2001)
  17. ^ https://www.youtube.com/post/UgkxWV7OXnxihuziLYo_YbV6uo_m5pCZEoQM
  18. ^ "Georgian communities in Persia". Retrieved 17 April 2014.
  19. ^ ^ Muliani, S. (2001) Jaygah-e Gorjiha dar Tarikh va Farhang va Tammadon-e Iran. (The Georgians’ position in the Iranian history and civilization.) Esfahan: Yekta
  20. ^
    doi:10.1163/157006506778234162
    . Retrieved 17 April 2014.
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