Semnani (language)

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Semnani (سمنانی)

Spoken in

Iran (Semnan Province)
speaker 60,000 (2007) [1]
Linguistic
classification
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
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

  1. Semnani - Ethnologue. Retrieved April 1, 2020 .
  2. Glottolog 4.1 - Semnani-Biyabuneki. Retrieved April 1, 2020 .
  3. Hammarström, Harald & Forkel, Robert & Haspelmath, Martin: Family: Semnanic [semn1240]. In: Glottolog 2.7. Retrieved April 1, 2020 .