Semnani (language)

Semnani (سمنانی)
Spoken in	Iran (Semnan Province)
speaker	60,000 (2007) [1]
Linguistic ; classification	Indo-European languages [2] Indo-Iranian languages Iranian languages Western Iranian languages Northwest Iranian languages Caspian languages; ; ; ; ; Semnani (language) ;
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

↑ 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 .