Tat language (Caucasus)

Tat Tati
Spoken in:	Azerbaijan, Israel, Russia, USA
Region:	Northeastern Azerbaijan
Total speakers:	26,000 excluding Judeo-Tat
Language family:	Indo-European  Indo-Iranian   Iranian    Western     Southwestern (Persid)      Tat
Language codes
ISO 639-1:	none
ISO 639-2:	none
ISO 639-3:	ttt – Muslim Tat
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The Tat language or Tati is a Western Iranian language spoken by the Tat ethnic group in The Republic of Azerbaijan and Russia. Its written form is related to Middle Persian Pahlavi. There is also a Jewish language called Judeo-Tat that is derived from the Tat language.

Tats refer to themselves as the descendants of the Sassanid Persians.

[edit] External links

• Tat language, From Ethnologue.
• Language Map of Azerbaijan.