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Name: Talysh

Alternate Names: Talyshi; Talish; Talishi; Talesh; Taleshi; Talysh (in French); Talisí (in Spanish)

Spoken in: Azerbaijan, Iran

Number of speakers: 800,000 in Azerbaijan (1996). Population total all countries: 914,550 (Ethnologue)

Number of speakers: 1000000 (UNESCO)

Number of speakers: 912000 (World Oral Literature Project)

Code: tly

Code Authority: ISO 639-3

Code Standard: SIL

Families: Indo-European (Indo-Germanische, Indo-Hittite)

Parent Subgroup: Talysh (taly)

Child Dialects: Astara (tly-ast) Lerik (tly-ler) Northern Talyshi (tly-nor) Central Talyshi (tly-cen) Massali (tly-mas) Southern Talyshi; Talysh (Southern) (tly-sou) Lenkoran (tly-len)

Endangerment Status

UNESCO Status: Vulnerable

Ethnologue Status: Not listed

Sutherland's Red List: Not listed

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