• Vulnerable

  60 percent certain, based on the evidence available

• 36,000

  Native speakers worldwide
• MORE ON SPEAKER NUMBERS

  Number of speakers is from 2006 census.

DATE OF INFO

2006

TRANSMISSION

MORE ON VITALITY

Ethnologue 17 (2013) lists the vitality of Sangisari as 6a (vigorous).

SPEAKER ATTITUDE

Generally positive

OTHER LANGUAGES USED BY THE COMMUNITY

• Iranian Persian

PLACES

Semnan Province. Shahmirzadi dialect: Shamirzad north of Mehdi

• Vulnerable

  20 percent certain, based on the evidence available

• ~30,000

  Native speakers worldwide

LANGUAGE CONTEXT COMMENTS

"The men are heavily exposed to bilingualism but without any observable major linguistic interference, which cannot be said of many modern-schooled youths."

PLACES

Iran

LOCATION DESCRIPTION

"The center of Sangesari is Sangesar itself [now called Mehdishahr] and the neighboring villages of Ziyârat (1 km north), Tâlebâbâd (1 km south), and Dargazin (9 km south)"