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The Perso-Tabaric dialects^{[1][note 1]} (Persian: گویش‌های فارسی-طبری, romanized: guyeš-hâ-ye fârsi-tabari) are dialects of Iranian Persian that have been Influenced by the Mazandarani language to varying degrees. They are spoken in the northern region of Iran, and form a transitional zone with the Tabaroid dialects, which are dialects of Mazandarani influenced by Persian.

Little to no trace of a Northwestern Iranian substratum, i.e. in the dialect of Tajrish, points to an early Persianization of Rey and adjoining areas. Caravan stations in the historical Great Khorasan Road acted as a channel for the spread of New Persian from Khorasan down to the capital Rey. In an interview with Hamshahri Online, Shemrani citizen Abbas Salehi gives this anecdote to the formation of the Tajrishi and Shemrani dialects:^[7]

The Shemirani people, whose language was Tabari and Mazani, came to the southern slopes of the Alborz after the Mongol attacks and settled in the area of present-day Shemiran.
At that time, there were castles in this area that were built to protect the city of Rey. The Shemirani people used to watch in these castles and convey news to the center of Rey through people on foot and on horseback. The result of this movement is that today, in areas such as Sar-Asyab Dolab, Hazrat Abdul-Azim (AS), etc… people still speak the Shamrooni dialect; a dialect which is softened Mazani.

It is spoken in these areas:

1. South Central Alborz:
   • Lower Jajrud valley (in Afjeh, Ahar, Anbaj, Ardineh, Asara, Bagh Gol, Bagh-e Komesh, Bujan, Eskareh, Fasham, Kond-e Bala, Lavasan-e Bozorg, Naserabad, Niknam Deh, Najjarkola, Ruteh, Shurkab, Tok Mazra’eh, Ushan, Vasefjan)
   • Shemiran (in Dulab, Imamzadeh Qasem, Evin, Farahzad, Heasark, Jamalabad, Jamaran, Kan, Kashanak, Keshar-e Olya, Niavaran, Pas Qaleh, Rendan, Sulqan, Tajrish, Tarasht)
   • Damavand and nearby villages 20 miles to the south and a couple of miles to the north, beyond which Mazandarani takes over^[9]
2. Taleqan and Karaj
   • Karaj (Kalak, Bileqan, Siah Kalan, Dorvan, Baraghan, Atashgah, Sarhadabad, Sufi-Abad, Gohardasht)
   • Kordan, and Taleqan (i.e. villages of Kash and Mir): Borjian concludes that “It would therefore be premature to draw any conclusions in classifying these dialects within the binary Persian-Tabari framework.” He also has called Taleqani “a semi-Tatic dialect group.” Glottolog lists “Taleqan-Karaj” under Perso-Tabaric,^[1] and Aqazadeh calls verbs in the dialect of Taleqani (i.e. in Avanak) more similar to the dialect of Karaj than other neighboring dialects.
   • The dialect of Gachsar is described as a blend of Mazanderani, Persian, Central Caspian, and Taleqani by Borjian. In a later paper, he puts the dialect under “Taleqan and Karaj” and mentions that it is “of this type,” but does not analyze it due to lack of data.
3. Shahrud County: Shahrud and Bastam^{[note 2]}
4. Golestan province: West Gorgan, Taqiabad, Taqartappeh, and Ziarat^{[note 3]}

Even though the dialects are Persian, reports suggest mutual intelligibility between Perso-Tabaric and Persian is rather low. In his one month stay at Damavand in the summer of 1948, Sadeq Kia could only communicate effectively with the citizens by either Persian or Mazandarani.^[18] Russian orientalist Valentin Zhukovski notes this while visiting Iran in 1883:^[19]

I found that in Shemiran there is a group that still speaks a language unintelligible to the residents of Tehran. Even Sheikh Mohammad
Hasan, my teacher of Persian in Tehran, said that the people around Tehran speak the rural^{[note 4]} language.

Consonants are the same as Iranian Persian.

• In the dialect of Tajrish, /k/ was palatalized before the open front vowel /a/,^{[note 5]} but not with other front vowels. /ɡ/ was never palatalized either, and one may conclude that unlike Tehrani Persian and like Mazandarani, the velar plosives were not substantially palatalized before the front vowels.

Vowels are mostly the same as Iranian Persian.