Kajali language

Kajali
Kajali
Native to	Iran
Language family	Indo-European Indo-Iranian Iranian Western Northwestern II Tatic (?) Kajali; ; ; ; ; ; ;
Writing system	Arabic (Nastaliq)
Language codes
ISO 639-3	xkj
Glottolog	kaja1247
ELP	Kajali

Northwestern Iranian language

Kajali is a dialect of Tati language^[1] spoken in a Kajal and few villages around in Ardabil province, northwestern Iran. It is a moribund Northwestern Iranian language closely related to Talysh. The language, which has a small number of remaining speakers, has been replaced by Azerbaijani. Unlike the Azeris, the dominant community in the region, its speakers are Sunni Muslims.^[2]

Grammar

Kecel has a grammatical gender system based on the distinction between masculine and feminine. The grammatical distinction between masculine and feminine is found in the conjugation of verbs as well as nouns.^[3] In addition to grammatical gender, there are two grammatical cases, nominative and oblique in the language.^[2]

Nominative and oblique endings:^[2]

	nom.	obl.
masc. sg.	-	-e
fem. sg.	-a	-e, -a
masc./fem. pl.	-e	-on

References

^ "Kajali". Glottolog. Retrieved 1 December 2025.
^ a b c Yarshater, Ehsan (1960). "The Tāti Dialect of Kajal". Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies. 23 (2): 275, 276, 279.
^ سبزعلیپور, جهاندوست (2013). "تمایز جنس مونث و مذکر در گویش تاتی خلخال" [Distiniction of the Feminine and Masculine Gender in the Tāti Dialect of Khalkhāl]. نامه فرهنگستان (in Persian). 13 (1): 72, 74, 81.

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[1] "Kajali". Glottolog. Retrieved 1 December 2025.

[:0-2] Yarshater, Ehsan (1960). "The Tāti Dialect of Kajal". Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies. 23 (2): 275, 276, 279.

[:182-3] سبزعلیپور, جهاندوست (2013). "تمایز جنس مونث و مذکر در گویش تاتی خلخال" [Distiniction of the Feminine and Masculine Gender in the Tāti Dialect of Khalkhāl]. نامه فرهنگستان (in Persian). 13 (1): 72, 74, 81.