Deilami language
The Deilami language (Deilami: ديلمی), also known as Daylami , Daylami , Dailamit , or Deylami , is an extinct language that is one of the northwestern dialects of the Iranian language family . It was spoken in northwestern Iran , especially in the mountainous areas of Gilan , Mazandaran, and Qazvin .
Parwiz Natel Chanlari lists this language as an Iranian dialect that was spoken between the 9th and 13th centuries. Istachri , a medieval Iranian geographer, wrote about this language, as did al-Muqaddasi , an Arabic geographer of the Middle Ages, who wrote, "They have a strange language and use the sound khe / x / frequently." Abū Esḥāq Ṣābī wrote a similar one Report on the inhabitants of the highlands of Dailam .
According to Wilferd Madelung, the Deilami language was an Iranian language even in early Islamic times. A characteristic of this language was an added ī-sound between the consonants and ā ( Lāhīdschān = Līāhīdschān, Amīrkā = Amīrkīā).
Individual evidence
- ^ Mehdi Marashi, Mohammad Ali Jazayery: Persian studies in North America: studies in honor of Mohammad Ali Jazayery. Ibex Publishers, 1994, ISBN 0-936347-35-X , p. 269.
- ^ Wilferd Madelung: Abū Isḥāq al-Ṣābī on the Alids of Tabaristān and Gīlān. In: Journal of Near Eastern Studies . Volume 26, Number 1 (Jan. 1967), pp. 17-57.