Sangsari language

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Sangiseri
Spoken in: Semnan & Mazandaran & Golestan & Markazi provinces of Iran
Region: Elburz
Total speakers:
Language family: Indo-European
 Indo-Iranian
  Iranian
   Western Iranian
    Northwestern Iranian
     Semnani[1]
      Sangiseri 
Writing system: Perso-Arabic Script
Language codes
ISO 639-1: none
ISO 639-2:
ISO 639-3: sgr

Sangsari is an Iranian language spoken in the Semnan province of Iran mainly in the Sangsar (Mahdi Shehr) town and in a several surrounding villages. Though Sangesari has traditionally been included in a group of dialects together with Sorkhei, Lasgerdi, Biyabunaki, Aftari, their speakers cannot understand each other. This gives grounds to claim that Sangesari is an independent Northwest Iranian language.[2]

The Sangiseri people are also considered a Northwest Iranic group, closely related to the Parthians, however have been heavily mixed with populations from the Caucasus, especially the Georgians[citation needed], whom many are believed to have settled in the Sangesar reigion, and intermarried with Sangesari peoples.

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