Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Talış şəhristanı" in Azerbaijani language version.
... The district encompasses the catchment basins of Nāvrud, Kargānrud, Rud-e Hara Dašt and a number of smaller rivers to the north. The cultural features of its population mark the transition between the traditional tāleši-speaking and Sunnite core of Tāleš, to which Asālem belongs, and the turkicized and “Shiʿitized” northern area (with the exception of Vizna valley, which is still totally tāleši-speaking and Sunnite). ...
... In Gīlān there are three major Iranian language groups, namely Gīlakī, Rūdbārī, and Ṭālešī, and pockets of two other groups, Tātī and Kurdish. The non-Iranian languages include Azeri Turkish and some speakers of Gypsy (Romany, of Indic origin). Gīlakī is spoken by possibly three million people as a first or second language, and has had a budding literature and fledgling prose publications, including newspapers, but both Gīlakī and Ṭālešī are rapidly losing ground in many cities of Tavāleš due to heavy immigration of people from Azerbaijan. ...
ASĀLEM, a mountainous district in Ṭāleš, now a dehestān of the central baḵš of the šahrestān of Ṭawāleš, province of Gīlān, Iran. Stretching about 11 km along the Caspian Sea, it comprises the whole basin of the Nāv-rūd and the upper valley of the Rūd-e Dīnāčāl (or Rūd-e Lomer), the lower reaches of which mark the border with the district of Ṭāleš-Dūlāb to the south; to the north, the small stream of Ḵālačašma (or Sardāb) separates it from the district of Kargānrūd. It is inhabited by Sunni Ṭāleš, who speak a dialect that is close to those of Kargānrūd and Ṭāleš-Dūlāb, and by some Shiʿite Turks native of Ḵalḵāl. It had a population of 21,800 inhabitants in 1355 Š./1976. ...
... The district encompasses the catchment basins of Nāvrud, Kargānrud, Rud-e Hara Dašt and a number of smaller rivers to the north. The cultural features of its population mark the transition between the traditional tāleši-speaking and Sunnite core of Tāleš, to which Asālem belongs, and the turkicized and “Shiʿitized” northern area (with the exception of Vizna valley, which is still totally tāleši-speaking and Sunnite). ...
... In Gīlān there are three major Iranian language groups, namely Gīlakī, Rūdbārī, and Ṭālešī, and pockets of two other groups, Tātī and Kurdish. The non-Iranian languages include Azeri Turkish and some speakers of Gypsy (Romany, of Indic origin). Gīlakī is spoken by possibly three million people as a first or second language, and has had a budding literature and fledgling prose publications, including newspapers, but both Gīlakī and Ṭālešī are rapidly losing ground in many cities of Tavāleš due to heavy immigration of people from Azerbaijan. ...
ASĀLEM, a mountainous district in Ṭāleš, now a dehestān of the central baḵš of the šahrestān of Ṭawāleš, province of Gīlān, Iran. Stretching about 11 km along the Caspian Sea, it comprises the whole basin of the Nāv-rūd and the upper valley of the Rūd-e Dīnāčāl (or Rūd-e Lomer), the lower reaches of which mark the border with the district of Ṭāleš-Dūlāb to the south; to the north, the small stream of Ḵālačašma (or Sardāb) separates it from the district of Kargānrūd. It is inhabited by Sunni Ṭāleš, who speak a dialect that is close to those of Kargānrūd and Ṭāleš-Dūlāb, and by some Shiʿite Turks native of Ḵalḵāl. It had a population of 21,800 inhabitants in 1355 Š./1976. ...
