The Phonology of Iranian-Balochi Dialects: Description and Analysis, PhD thesis (2017) (original) (raw)

The Phonology of Iranian -Balochi Dialects: Description and Analysis

2017

The present study deals with the phonological system of three Iranian Balochi dialects namely Mirjaveh Sarhaddi (MBS), Sarawani Balochi (SB) and Lashari Balochi (LB). Those three selected Iranian Balochi dialects are spoken respectively in Mirjaveh, Sarawan, and Lashar in Sistan and Balouchestan province, which is located in the southeast of Iran. As t the title of the present research, both descriptive and theoretical approaches (Optimality Theory) are concerned, since they can complement each other, connecting language (i.e. Balochi) to language (i.e. universal grammar), and give a formal and precise description and analysis of the grammatical properties of Iranian Balochi dialects sounds.

Iranian-balochi dialects loanword phonology: an optimality theoretic approach

Dialectologia, 2018

espanolEste articulo tiene como objetivo investigar como se adaptan fonologicamente los prestamos en tres dialectos baluchi iranianos (IBD), a saber, Mirjaveh Sarhaddi Balochi (MSB), Sarawani Balochi (SB) y Lashari Balochi (LB). Los analisis de estas adaptaciones fonologicas se daran en el marco de la Teoria de la Optimidad (TO) (Prince 200). Los datos se han recopilado durante un trabajo de campo de investigacion en las provincias de Sistan y Baluchistan de Iran. Los resultados de la investigacion demuestran que en la adaptacion segmental, las prestamos extranjeras con las fricativas f, v, χ, ɣ se adaptan en IBD como p, w, h o k y k o ɡ, respectivamente. Tambien la adaptacion vocalica ilustra que la diptongacion y la laxitud vocal son dos procesos comunes en la adaptacion de vocales en IBD. Ademas, la adaptacion fonotactica en IBD muestra que se oberva la germinacion al final de la palabra en los prestamos y en las palabras originales de baluchi; pero tambien hay una cantidad de pr...

The Vowel Systems of Five Iranian Balochi Dialects

2012

The vowel systems of five selected Iranian Balochi dialects are investigated in this study, which is the first work to apply empirical acoustic analysis to a large body of recorded data on the vowe ...

IRANIAN-BALOCHI DIALECTS LOANWORD PHONOLOGY

This paper aims to investigate how the loanwords phonologically are adapted in three Iranian-Baochi dialects (IBDs) namely Mirjaveh Sarhaddi Balochi (MSB), Sarawani Balochi (SB) and Lashari Balochi (LB). The analyses of these phonological adaptations will be given within the framework of Optimality Theory (OT), comparative tableau (Prince 200). The data have been collected during a research fieldwork in Sistan and Baluchistan provinces of Iran. The research findings demonstrate that in segmental adaptation, foreign inputs with fricatives f, v, χ, ɣ are adapted into IBDs as p, w, h or k and k or ɡ respectively. Also vowel adaptation illustrates that diphthongization and vowel laxness are two common processes in vowel adaptation in IBDs. In addition phonotatic adaptation in IBDs shows that final word germination is observed in loanwords as well as original Balochi words; but there is also number of loans degemination in Sarhaddi and Lashari Balochi. Moreover these findings can be represented in OT by ranking the following constraints: FAITH-ROOT, FAITH-AFFIX, FAITH-µ, *Geminate.

AN OLD PHONOLOGICAL STUDY OF BALOCHI AND PERSIAN

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 NEW PERSIAN AND BALOCHI

Balochistan

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

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

Iranian Journal of Applied Language Studies, 2013

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.

Diphthongization in Five Iranian Balochi Dialects

Orientalia Suecana, 2013

This paper deals with the phenomenon of diphthongization, eː> ie and oː > ue, in different varieties of Iranian Balochi dialects spoken in the five regions of Sistan, Saravan, Khash, Iranshahr and Chabahar in the southeast corner of Iran. The study reveals that diphthongized production of these vowels is predominant in the Khash dialect, suggesting that they should be represented as the diphthongs ie and ue in the vowel inventory of this dialect. In the Iranshahr and Chabahar dialects, which show the second and third highest degrees of diphthongization among the dialects under study, the data indicate a diphthongization tendency rather than a shift to predominantly diphthongized productions. Sistan and Saravan show only sporadic tendencies toward diphthongization. Balochi, in general, has eight vowels i, i:, u, u:, a, a:, e:, o: (also called the Common Balochi vowel system), as well as the speech sounds ay and aw, which are referred to as diphthongs by some scholars and are believed to be sequences of V+C by others. The occurrence of diphthongization in the dialects under study seems to be system-internal rather than due to external influence. Factors such as age, education, or language contact with surrounding languages such as Persian, do not appear to contribute to the occurrence of diphthongized vowel production.

Iranian Studies The Phonology of Marvdashti Dialect

Phonology is one of several aspects of a natural language and it is the study of sound systems of languages. The purpose of this article is to study and describe the phonemic system of the dialect of Marvdashti. Marvdashti dialect belongs to the southwestern branch of New Iranian languages. The article deals with an inventory of Marvdashti dialect sounds and their features and it covers the phonological rules which specify how sounds interact with each other. This study first introduces and examines the consonants and vowels of Marvdashti dialect, and then explores phoneme arrangement, syllable structure and phonological processes such as assimilation, dissimilation, alteration, epenthesis, deletion and methathesis. Keywords: Marvdashti; Dialect; Iranian Languages; Persian; Phonology

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