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	Full Story (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		They are educated in Farsi and continue to speak Mazanderani.
		The local Christian community has not recovered from the devastating persecution of its leaders and incredible restrictions on the registered Church or prohibition of house churches meeting for worship.
		Mazanderani or Palari, is unwritten and is close to Farsi, the official language of Iran.
	www.sclink.net /synapse/about/fullstory_public.cfm?aboutid=4360&website=sclink.net (1090 words)

	The Unreached Peoples - Condensed Version - Day 17
		The 3.2 million Mazanderani people live primarily in the northern reaches of Iran just south of the Caspian Sea.
		The Mazanderani live and die virtually untouched by the gospel.
		There are no broadcasts in Mazanderani and no known missionaries focusing on this huge unreached people group.
	www.ad2000.org /ptw3cond/day17.htm (663 words)

	Iran - Printer-friendly - ninemsn Encarta
		South Azerbaijani is a mother tongue for 23.5 million Turki people in Iran—it has more first-language speakers than Farsi.
		Luri, Kurdi, Mazanderani, and Gilaki (all Indo-Iranian), Qashqa’i and Turkmen (Altaic), and Mesopotamian Spoken Arabic (Semitic) are all mother tongues for large minority groups.
		Following the change in government in 1979, Iran’s educational system and its cultural life were altered to conform with precepts of revolutionary Shiite Islam.
	au.encarta.msn.com /text_761567300___8/Iran.html (1076 words)

	Origin of the Indo-European languages: Part V (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The Caspian dialects are as follows: the major one is known as Mazanderani (this name proceeds from "Mazainya daeva" of Avesta).
		The Semnani dialect (spoken in Semnan) is closely allied to Mazanderani.
		There are also two dialects somewhat different: Gilaki (in the region of Recht) and Talyshi (ranging up to Aras river in Azerbaijan).
	www.sanskrit-sanscrito.com.ar /english/linguistics/origin5.html (1478 words)

	Poetry Today by MSN - Persian & Iranian Poetry and Literature website online Iran culture (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Baba Taher poems are recited to the present day all over Iran accompanied with Seh Tar (three stringed viol or lute).
		The quatrains (Dubayti or two-bayt metre poems) of Baba Taher are also written in local accents such as Mazanderani.
		They say Pahlaviat to these kinds of poems and they are very ancient.
	www.persian.ws /poet/fullnews.php?id=81 (262 words)

	Vafsi Folk Tales
		As a result, they were left as an unpublished draft at the time of his death.
		This group consists of 7 subgroups – Tatic, Kurdish, Gurani, Zazaki/Dimli, Caspian (Gilaki and Mazanderani), Central Plateau, Baluchi) – and include a multiplicity of languages, all of which have a probable time depth of ±2800 years separation from Southwest Iranian (which includes Persian), even though both branches are in the Iranian language family.
		Vafsi belongs to the Tatic subgroup and is spoken in four villages in west central Iran, located between Hamadan, Saveh, and Arak, almost equidistant from these three cities.
	ilexfoundation.org /public/vafsi.html (923 words)

	OUQS - ICQ 2005 - Group E
		Wadham: Vincent Poffley +50, Bryn Harris -10, Huston Gilmore +20, Ali Mazanderani 0.
		Wadham: Huston Gilmore +30, Bryn Harris +10, Vincent Poffley +25, Ali Mazanderani -5.
		Wadham: Vincent Poffley +20, Bryn Harris +35, Huston Gilmore 0, Ali Mazanderani +10.
	users.ox.ac.uk /~quiz/comp/icq/icq2005/groupe.html (183 words)

	Iran
		About 67 million people live here, distributed in more than 60 ethnic groups.
		A large majority are Persians but there are numerous groups with more than 1 million members each (notably the Qashqai, Luri, Kurds, and Mazanderani).
		The population is split nearly evenly between urbanites and rural dwellers.
	www.justinlong.org /reality-check/20040531.htm (939 words)

	Northwest Iranian Project
		This language demonstrates a smooth transition to Gilaki on the west and Mazanderani on the east and it would be impossible to define a clear dividing line between these speech areas.
		Mazanderani with many divergent forms located between Chalus and Gorgan, the extremes of which probably have low intelligibility.
		Shahmirzadi, clearly a member of the Caspian group, located in the Semnan area (see below); it has clearly been influenced by the neighboring languages
	www.eva.mpg.de /lingua/files/NWIran.html (1001 words)

	SOUTHERN BAPTIST International missions leader Jerry Rankin
		When will the gap be closed across the Muslim world where creative access strategies are enabling people to gain entry and share the gospel?
		By what criteria should unreached people groups in Central Asia, such as the Balsari, Quashqai and Mazanderani be denied hearing and responding to the gospel?
		Record numbers are responding to the call to go.
	archives.tconline.org /Trends/dec01r.html (727 words)

	Kirmanjki language resources
		KIRMANJKI Turkey 140,000 1972 1.5M LURI Iran 4.28 M 1993 MAZANDERANI Iran 3.27 M 1993 MINGRELIAN Georgia 500,000 1989 PASHTO, SOUTHERN Â Afganistan 8 M 1989, 1996 19M national QASHQA'I Iran 1.5 M 1997 TAJIKI Tajikistan 3...
		Kirmanjki (Northern Zaza), Dimli (Southern Zaza) Parthian , Semnani, Sangisari Median Gilaki, Mazanderani, Shahmirzadi Balochi, Koroshi Talysh, Judeo-Nehavandi, Harzani Khalaj B. Southwestern (Persid languages...
		...mit den Dialekten Kirmanjki (nÃ¶rdliches Zaza) und Dimli (sÃ¼dliches Zaza)(TÃ¼rkei) Gorani Dialekte: Gorani, Bajelan (Iran) Gilaki, Mazanderani, Schahmirzadi (Iran) Balutschi (Pakistan) SÃ¼dwest: Persisch...
	www.mongabay.com /indigenous_ethnicities/languages/languages/Kirmanjki.html (792 words)

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