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Elaheh Taghvaei (Yerevan State University, Yerevan)
A comparative study of the West Iranian Sivandi dialect
The aim of this paper is to examine the position of Sivandi among the Western
Iranian languages by looking at certain features of its historical phonology. Sivandi
is an Iranian language spoken in the Fars province of Iran (North-West of Shiraz-
Isfahan road).
From a historical point of view Sivandi has been regarded as a so-called North-
Western Iranian language. This means that with regard to certain linguistic features
Sivandi shares a set of characteristics with contemporary Kurdish and Semnani
languages and the Middle Iranian Parthian, whereas Bakhtiyari, Luri and some other
South-Western Iranian languages show different features in the same phonetic position.
Sivandi shares most of its characteristics with the Central dialects, but being
surrounded by Persian and the dialects of Fars, it also contains words exhibiting
typical southwestern features, therefore probably borrowed from Persian or
neighboring dialects (e.g
dās
“sickle” and
asiow
“water mill”, Pers.
asiab [āsīā(b)]
,
with Mid. Pers. *
θr
>
s
).
Sivandi has preserved a number of words found neither in the Central dialects
nor in the neighboring Fars dialects, such as
šet
“milk”(< Old. Ir.
xšwifta
-, Pers.
šir
). It has a number of words in common with Kurdish, for instance,
pird
“bridge
”(<prtu), cf. Kurdish
pird
(but Pers.
pol
, and
uir
“fire”, cf. Kurdish
agir
.
English
Persian
Sivandi
Semnani
flower
gol
vel
vela
dog
sag
esbe
espa
girl
doxtar
det
dota
