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AN OLD PHONOLOGICAL STUDY OF NEW PERSIAN AND BALOCHI

Balochistan

The Balochi language is one of the ancient languages, which belongs to the Iranian branch of Indo-European family. This language has a very deep-rooted history and similarities with the Sanskrit, Avesta, Old Persian and Pahlavi (which are now considered as dead languages). These languages flourished side by side for thousands of years and the concerned language did not let itself dead because of its enrichment and nomadic environment. Balochi is currently spoken in Pakistan, Iran, Afghanistan, India, the Arab Gulf States, Turkmenistan, east Africa and some Scandinavian countries such as Sweden and Norway. The aim of this paper is to show the differences between the new Persian and the Balochi languages and to clear the misunderstandings of those writers who have considered the Balochi language as a contemporary of the new Persian. In this paper phonetics and the phonological basis of the Balochi language will be discussed to prove that the Balochi language has a long history of approximately 5000-6000 years. As far as, the Persian language concerns, the evolutionary changes and the changes of phonetics, the phonetically variations will be mentioned that which language (Persian or Balochi) is most affected. References from different sources will be given to eliminate * Lecturer,

AN OLD PHONOLOGICAL STUDY OF BALOCHI AND PERSIAN

AN OLD PHONOLOGICAL STUDY OF NEW PERSIAN AND BALOCHI Language & Literature

A vowel shift (or lack thereof) in two Indo-Iranian languages

Program and Abstracts: 37th Annual Conference of the Linguistic Society of Nepal, Tribhuvan University. 26-27 November 2016, 2016

The oral monophthongal vowel system of Nepali is commonly described as a 6-member vowel system that has lost the ī-i and ū-u contrasts of Sanskrit while qualitatively retaining its ā-a contrast. Similarly, the vowel system of Tajik, a variety of New Persian, has lost the ī-i and ū-u contrasts of Early New Persian while qualitatively retaining its ā-a contrast. However, unlike Nepali, in which ā is more open (and perhaps also more back) than a, Tajik has preserved the ā-a contrast by raising ā above a. Despite this, data exist that suggest that, in the late 19th to early 20th century, Tajik had a 6-vowel triangular system very similar to that of present-day Nepali. This presentation contrasts the vowel systems of Nepali and Tajik as well as those of the languages with which the two languages have been in intensive contact, and discusses the implications their parallel and differential developments may have for the typology of vowel systems and Labov’s supposedly universal principles of vowel shifting.

The Short Vowels /i/ and /u/ in Iranian Balochi Dialects

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The aim of the present paper is to study the status of the short vowels /i/ and /u/ in five selected Iranian Balochi dialects. These dialects are spoken in Sistan (SI), Saravan (SA), Khash (KH), Iranshahr (IR), and Chabahar (CH) regions located in province Sistan va Baluchestan in the southeast of Iran. This study investigates whether these two vowels have the same qualities as the short /i/ and /u/ do in the Common Balochi inventory (i, i2, u, u2, a, a2, e2, o2). The Common Balochi inventory is the vowel system represented generally for Balochi language, which is a NorthWestern Iranian language, a sub-branch of the Indo-Iranian family. The data for this survey are gathered from villages, rural areas, and cities in these regions in the forms of free speech and verbal elicitation from more than 20 literate and non-literate male and female language consultants, 2 males and 2 females for each dialect. The investigation reveals that the short /i/ and /u/ show strong tendencies towards a lower position. This study suggests phonemic systems in which the short /i/ is modified to short /e/ in all dialects, but /u/ is modified to /o/ only in SI, SA, and CH; the lowering of the short /u/ to short /o/ in KH and IR may still be in the transition stage. It is possible that Persian, as the dominant language has had its influence on these dialects causing a lowering tendency in the two vowels under study.

Exploring the /w/, /v/, /b/ and /f/ Alternations in Mashoori Dialect (MD) Of Persian Language

Mashoori is a dialectal variation of southeast of Khuzestan Province, Iran. This dialect is spoken in Mahshahr and its regional neighborhood and, inherited from the Old Southwest Iranian Languages. It is somehow rich from the phonological perspective. One interesting phonological process applied in MD is the alteration of consonantal /b/ and /f/ to the semivowel [w] that is assumed to be kind of lenition process. /w/ in the Old Southwest Persian changed historically to [g], [b] and [w] in Persian Dari and to [g], [b] and [v] in Modern Standard Farsi. The data required for this descriptive-analysis study make use of a dialectal report manual gathered by five native speakers of MD, plus data collected from previously done related researches on this process within the theoretical framework of Generative Phonology. Findings render that this process is remarkably different from what is going on in Modern Persian in a way that seems plausible to choose /w/ as the underlying representation, changing to /b/, /f/ and /v/ in Modern Standard Persian under the fortition process.

On the variants of Newari vowels: A study in phonological non-alignment

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Synchronically unexpected /n/ in the Balochi dialect of Iranshahr (original) (raw)

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