Tat language (Caucasus)

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Tat
zuhun tati, зугьун тати
Native to	Azerbaijan, Dagestan (Russia)
Region	Caucasus
Ethnicity	Tats, Armeno-Tats
Native speakers	34,000 excluding Judeo-Tat (2011–2020 census)[1]
Language family	Indo-European Indo-Iranian Iranian Western Iranian Southwestern Iranian Persian[2] Tat
Writing system	In Azerbaijan: Latin (Azerbaijani alphabet) In Russia: basic Cyrillic plus digraphs
Official status
Official language in	Russia  Dagestan[3]
Language codes
ISO 639-3	ttt
Glottolog	cauc1242  Caucasian Tat musl1236  Muslim Tat
Linguasphere	58-AAC-g

Tat, also known as Caucasian Persian,^[4] Tat/Tati Persian,^[5][6] or Caucasian Tat,^[4] is a Southwestern Iranian language closely related to,^[7] but not fully mutually intelligible^[8] with Persian and spoken by the Tats in Azerbaijan and Russia. There is also an Iranian language called Judeo-Tat spoken by Mountain Jews.