page_title: Tat language (Caucasus)
section_title: Ethnic population
hierarchical_section_title: Tat language (Caucasus) / Ethnic population
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: Carte ethnologique du Caucase, dressée / d'après les travaux de MM Seidlitz&#160;; Komaroff&#160;; von Erckert Chantre&#160;; et Ernest Chantre
context_page_description: The Tat language or Tat/Tati Persian or Tati is a Southwestern Iranian language closely related to, but not fully mutually intelligible with Persian and spoken by the Tats in Azerbaijan and Russia. There is also an Iranian language called Judeo-Tat spoken by Jews of Caucasus.
context_section_description: Research has demonstrated that the word “Tat” does not have an ethnic origin. This is the term the Turks used to denote the settled Iranian-speaking population of Azerbaijan. This is proven by the names some groups of the Tat population have given themselves. For example, the residents of the Apsheron settlements of Balakhany and Surakhany call themselves Pars, and those of the settlement of Lagich in the Ismailly district the Lohudj. It must be mentioned that in the 19th century, cattle herders called the seasonal workers from southern Azerbaijan Tat, although they were ethnic Turks.
caption: Spread of Tat in 1887
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