Kilit dialect

Historic Iranian dialect

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Kilit is an extinct dialect of Tati language that is closely related to Harzandi. It is an Iranian dialect of Azerbaijan that is closely related to Talysh. It is probably a dialect of Iranian Tati, otherwise found only in Iran, specifically a subdialect of Harzandi. It was spoken in the villages around Kilit, located 12 kilometers southwest from the city of Ordubad in a district with the same name of Nakhchivan in Azerbaijan. It was still used by non-native speakers as a second language in the 1950s. The dialect was reported to be spoken in some settlements in Nakhchivan, South Azerbaijan. In addition to Kilit, the region where it was mainly spoken, the dialect was also spoken in Baba Yaqub and other nearby settlements. Kilit, which was spoken north of the Aras River, was the northernmost and northwesternmost of the known Tati dialects.

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