Tat language (Caucasus)

Tat, also known as Caucasian Persian, Tat/Tati Persian, or Caucasian Tat, is a Southwestern Iranian language closely related to, but not fully mutually intelligible with Persian and spoken by the Tats in Azerbaijan and Russia. There is also an Iranian language called Judeo-Tat spoken by Mountain Jews.

This article is about a southwestern Iranian language spoken in the Caucasus. For the group of northwestern Iranian languages spoken in Iran, see Tati language (Iran).
Tat
zuhun tati, зугьун тати
Native toAzerbaijan, Dagestan (Russia)
RegionCaucasus
EthnicityTats, Armeno-Tats
Native speakers
34,000 excluding Judeo-Tat (2011–2020 census)
Official status
Official language in
 Russia
Language codes
ISO 639-3ttt
Glottologcauc1242  Caucasian Tat
musl1236  Muslim Tat
Linguasphere58-AAC-g
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