Khunsari dialect (Persian: گویش خوانساری) is a Central dialect within the Northwestern Iranian languages, spoken in Khansar, a town in the west of Isfahan province of Iran. Some of the oldest isoglosses include the development of Aryan palatals to fricatives: OIr. *dz > z: mossar "big", kissar "small", heze "yesterday", zun- "know", zumā "son-in-law" (but yešt "ugly" < SW *a-dushta-, cf. NPers. zesht < NW *a-zushta- "unloved"); *tsw > sp: isba, espa "dog" (< Median spaka-), espid "white", ešpiž "louse".
| Khansari | |
|---|---|
| Khusaari | |
| Native to | Iran |
Native speakers | 21,000 (2000)[1] |
Indo-European
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | kfm |
| Glottolog | khun1255 |
| ELP | Khunsari |
References
edit- ^ Khansari at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
Further reading
edit- Eilers, Wilhelm (1976). Die Mundart von Chunsar [The Dialect of Khunsar]. Westiranische Mundarten aus der Sammlung Wilhelm Eilers (in German). Vol. 1. Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag GMBH. ISBN 3-515-02009-8.