Indo-European · ISO 639-3 hac
Gurani Language گورانی
Gurani is an Indo-European language spoken by about 1.2 million people in 1 country. It is written in the Perso-Arabic script.
Where Gurani is spoken
- Official language
- Regional official
- Spoken by 10%+
- 1–10%
- Smaller communities
Countries that speak Gurani
Language family
- Indo-European
- Classical Indo-European
- Indo-Iranian
- Iranian-Nuristani
- Iranian
- Central Iranian PBS
- Central Iranian PB
- Northwestern Iranian
- Adharic
- Gorani
- Gurani
Writing system
Perso-Arabic script
Related languages
About the Gurani language
Gurani (گورانی) is spoken by about 1.2 million people, which makes it the 420th most spoken language in the world — just behind Fur (1.2 million) and ahead of Northern Qiandong Miao (1.2 million). It belongs to the Indo-European language family and, more precisely, to the Gorani group within the Indo-Iranian branch.
Where is Gurani spoken?
Gurani is used in 1 country. The largest communities live in Iran (1.2 million).
Gurani is not a national official language anywhere.
Writing system and status
Gurani is written in the Perso-Arabic script. Glottolog classifies it as threatened, meaning fewer children learn it than in the past.
Its closest relatives in the same branch of the family are Dimli, Talysh, Northern Kurdish, Central Kurdish, Mazanderani, Gilaki and 2 more.
ISO codes: ISO 639-3 hac.
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Data: Languages of the World dataset (MIT) — ISO 639-3, Glottolog (CC BY 4.0), Unicode CLDR, Google LinguaMeta (CC BY 4.0) and Wikidata; country lists: samayo/country-json (MIT). Speaker numbers include first- and second-language speakers where sources report them.