Gorgani language

Gorgani
RegionGorgan
EthnicitySemnani
Extinct16th-18th centuries[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3None (mis)
Glottologgurg1241

Gorgani or Gurgani is the extinct language of the city of Gorgan in northern Iran, neighboring Mazanderani. It is documented from the 14th and 15th centuries, from the writings of the Horufi movement.[2]

References

  1. ^ Borjian, Habib (2008). The Extinct Language of Gurgān: Its Sources and Origins. p. 681. Hence, Gurgani must have died out sometime after the fifteenth but certainly before the nineteenth century
  2. ^ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Gurgani". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.