Tat language (Caucasus)

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Muslim 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 Iranian Southwestern Iranian (Persid) Tat Muslim Tat
Language codes
ISO 639-1	?
ISO 639-2	none
ISO 639-3	ttt
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The Tat language or Tati is a Southwestern Iranian language spoken by the Tats in Azerbaijan and Russia. According to the Ethnologue, it's spoken by 18,000 people in Azerbaijan, 8000 in Iran, and 2300 in Russia.^[1] 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.^{[citation needed]}

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• Language Map of Azerbaijan.