Talysh people

Talysh people

ethnic group
group=Talysh
population= 912,000


poptime=
popplace=: (76,800) [ [http://www.eurasianet.org/resource/azerbaijan/hypermail/200103/0062.html eurasianet.org (1999)] ]
flag|Iran:112,000 [http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=tly]
rels=Islam (Shia and Sunni; [Clifton/Deckinga/Lucht/Tiessen (2005), " [http://www.sil.org/silesr/2005/silesr2005-009.pdf Sociolinguistic Situation of the Talysh in Azerbaijan] ". SIL Electronic Survey Reports2005. p. 5] sources disagree as to the specific makeup [ [http://www.unpo.org/content/view/7921/147/ UNPO - Talysh ] ] [ [http://kcm.co.kr/bethany_eng/clusters/8071.html The Unreached Peoples Prayer Profiles ] ] [ [http://www.hoover.org/publications/digest/3513056.html Hoover Institution - Hoover Digest - What I Saw ] ] )

langs=Talysh, Azeri, Gilaki, Persian
related= other Iranian peoples

Talysh (also Talishi, Taleshi or Talyshi) are an Iranian people who speak the Talysh language, one of the Northwestern Iranian languages. It is spoken in the northern regions of the Iranian provinces of Gilan and Ardabil and the southern parts of the Republic of Azerbaijan. Northern Talysh (the part in the Republic of Azerbaijan) was historically known as Talish-i Gushtasbi.

Talysh has two major mutually intelligible dialects — Northern (in Azerbaijan and Iran), and Southern (in Iran). According to Ethnologue, Azerbaijani is used as literary language and speakers also use Azerbaijani. There are no statistical data on the numbers of Talysh-speakers in Iran, but estimates show their number to be around 1 millionFact|date=August 2008. According to Ethnologue some 800,000 Talysh live in the Republic of Azerbaijan [http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=tly] , bringing the worldwide Talysh population close to 912,000 people [http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=tly] . In the thesis "Positive Orientation Towards the Vernacular among the Talysh of Sumgayit" [http://www.azargoshnasp.net/languages/talyshi/TALYSHSUMGAYIT.pdf] the number of Talyshs speakers in 2003 is estimated to be at least 400,000 in the Republic of Azerbaijan. According to the official census of the Republic of Azerbaijan, whose figures are in dispute by Talysh nationalists, the number of Talysh people in the Republic of Azerbaijan is 80,000. [http://www.eurasianet.org/resource/azerbaijan/hypermail/200103/0062.html] . According to some sources, the Azerbaijani government has also implemented a policy of forceful integration of all minorities, including Talysh, Tat, and Lezgins. [Christina Bratt (EDT) Paulston, Donald Peckham, Linguistic Minorities in Central and Eastern Europe, Multilingual Matters. 1853594164, pg 106] . According to Svante. E. Cornell: "Whereas officially the number of Lezgins registered as such is around 180,000, the Lezgins claim that the number of Lezgins registered as Azerbaijani is many times higher than this figure, some accounts showing over 700,000 Lezgins in Azerbaijan. These figures are denied by the Azerbaijani government but in private many Azeris acknowledge the fact that Lezgins- for that matter Talysh or the Tat population of Azerbaijan is far higher than the official figure." [ Svante E. Cornell. Small Nations and Great Powers. Routledge (UK), Jan 1, 2001, ISBN 0-7007-1162-7, pg 269] .

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