Our guest today is Zia Khoshsirat. Zia is a doctoral student at UCLA, studying Linguistic Anthropology. His research interests include language ideologies, historical-sociolinguistics, and language documentation and revitalization, and his primary language of focus is Gilaki, an Iranian language originating from the Gilan province of Iran.
Zia Khoshsirat contact info: ziaoddin@g.ucla.edu The Gilaki Language: An introduction to Gilaki with a linguistic approach, mostly focused on western dialects of Gilaki in Gilan (Link: http://uu.diva-portal.org/smash/record.jsf?pid=diva2%3A560728&dswid=1626) A website about Gilaki and its speakers