Social:Gorgani language

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Short description: Extinct language of northern Iran
Gorgani
Gurgani
RegionGorgan
EthnicitySemnani
Extinct16th-18th centuries[1]
Indo-European
Language codes
ISO 639-3None (mis)
Glottologgurg1241[2]

Gorgani or Gurgani is the extinct language of the city of Gorgan in northern Iran, neighboring Mazanderani. It is documented from the 14th and 15th centuries, from the writings of the Horufi movement.[3]

References

  1. Borjian, Habib (2008). The Extinct Language of Gurgān: Its Sources and Origins. p. 681. "Hence, Gurgani must have died out sometime after the fifteenth but certainly before the nineteenth century" 
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds (2017). "Gurgani". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History. http://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/gurg1241. 
  3. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds (2017). "Gurgani". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History. http://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/gurg1241.