Semnani (language)
Semnani (سمنانی) | ||
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Spoken in |
Iran (Semnan Province) | |
speaker | 60,000 (2007) [1] | |
Linguistic classification |
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Language codes | ||
ISO 639-3 |
smy |
Semnani (Semnani / Persian سمنانی semnani ) is a Caspian language that belongs to the Iranian branch of the Indo-European language family and is close to Masanderan . It is spoken by about 60,000 people (2007) in the Iranian province of Semnan . Like other northwest Iranian languages, Semnani is a descendant of the Parthian language , which is now extinct. Often Semnani is only referred to as the Persian dialect, although the languages do not have the same ancestry. Like other Caspian languages , Semnani has significantly fewer Arabic and Turkic loanwords than Persian . There are some vocabulary and grammatical similarities with other Iranian languages as well.
Dialects
There are the following dialects: Biyabunaki, Sangsari , Sorkhei , Aftari and Lasgerdi.
German | Sorkhei | Lasgerdi | Sangsari | Aftari | Biyabunaki |
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dog | esbā | esbe | esbe | espa | esba |
girl | dukkey | dot | döt | dut | dut |
blood | xün | xün | |||
Large | masīn | masīn | mas / yale | masīn | |
nose | ven | vinī | xunī | vinī | vēnī |
snow | vār | var | varf | var | |
moon | mūng | māye | |||
woman | žiki | žaki | žekeyn | džek | džinakā |
credentials
Individual evidence
- ↑ Semnani - Ethnologue. Retrieved April 1, 2020 .
- ↑ Glottolog 4.1 - Semnani-Biyabuneki. Retrieved April 1, 2020 .
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald & Forkel, Robert & Haspelmath, Martin: Family: Semnanic [semn1240]. In: Glottolog 2.7. Retrieved April 1, 2020 .