| Daylami | |
|---|---|
| Daylamite, Deylami, Dailamite, Deilami | |
| ديلمی | |
| Native to | Iran |
| Region | SouthCaspian Sea,Daylam |
| Ethnicity | Daylamites |
| Era | 900–1300 AD[1] |
| Persian alphabet | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | None (mis) |
| Glottolog | None |
Daylami, also known asDaylamite,Deilami,Dailamite, orDeylami (Persian:دیلمی, from the name of theDaylam region), is anextinct language that was one of the northwestern branch of theIranian languages. It was spoken in northernIran, specifically in the mountainous area inGīlān.
Parviz Natel Khanlari listed this language as one of Iranian dialects spoken between the 9th and 13th centuries.Istakhri, a medieval Iranian geographer, has written about this language, as didAl-Muqaddasi, a medieval Arab geographer, who wrote "they have an obscure language and they use the phonemekhe /x/ a lot."[1] Abū Esḥāq Ṣābī had a similar report on people in the Deylam highlands who spoke a distinct language.[2]
According to Wilfered Madelung, in the early Islamic period the language of the Deylamites was a northwestern Iranian language. One of the characteristics of this language was an added ī sound between consonants and ā (Lāhījān=Līāhījān, Amīrkā=Amīrkīā).[3]
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