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Lexicography of Iranian dialects: a general overview (work in slow progress – this is a descriptive study only) Gerardo Barbera This paper will offer a critical review of research in the field of synchronic and diachronic Iranian lexicography, with special emphasis on the minority languages and dialects of Iran, including local dialects of ...
- Gerardo Barbera
For Persian in particular, Salāmi’s (2004‒14) Ganjineh-ye guyeshshenāsi-ye ostān-e Fārs documents 72 (mostly Persian) dialects of one province in Iran (Fars Province), and this is only a small selection of the Persian dialects spoken there; in addition, several other provinces of Iran have large numbers of distinct Persian dialects ...
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The Iranian family is the most widely spoken language family in Iran. While there are also other members of the Iranian subfamily in Central Asia, Southwest Asia, and the Caucasus, this chapter is limited to the current day Iran. Members of the “Iranian” language family show significant variation in their linguistic structure and vocabulary. A clos...
Various Turkic languages spoken in Iran are part of the larger Altaic language family (Golden 1998: 16). Azeri constitutes the most widely spoken Turkiclanguage in Iran. Closely related to Azeri, yet mutually unintelligible, are Turkmen and Qashqai languages as well as smaller Turkic languages, such as Afshar and Khalaj. Azeri. Azeri speakers const...
Semitic languages constitute the third large family of languages spoken in Iran. Arabic is the main Semitic language in Iran, but Assyrian is also spoken in much smaller communities, mostly in Urmia (Orumiyeh) and West Azerbaijan (Elling 2013: 32). Arabic. Arabic speakers number around 3% of the population in Iran (Tohidi 2009: 300). However, minim...
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The Iranian languages, also called the Iranic languages, [1] [2] are a branch of the Indo-Iranian languages in the Indo-European language family that are spoken natively by the Iranian peoples, predominantly in the Iranian Plateau . The Iranian languages are grouped in three stages: Old Iranian (until 400 BCE), Middle Iranian (400 BCE – 900 ...
EnglishZazaSorani KurdishKurmanji Kurdishbeautifulrınd, xasekciwan, nayabrind, delal, bedew, xweşikbloodgonixwênxwîn, xûnbreadnan, nonnannanbringardene/anîn, hawerdin, hênananînDear authors, please read the "Author's Guide" carefully before submitting your article.The bi-annual journal of "Persian Language and Iranian Dialects" were separated from Adab Pajohi magazine in 2015, and from the first issue (spring and summer 2015) with scientific-research rank, articles on general topics related to Persian language and Iranian dialects can be published.
