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Sistani Dialect
Sistani ( , also known as Sistuni () is a dialect continuum of the Persian language spoken by Sistani Persian people, Sistani people in Iranian Sistan. It is part of the Southwestern Iranian languages, Southwestern Iranian branch of the Indo-Iranian languages, Indo-Iranian group of Indo-European languages. Sistani Phrases Comparison between Sistani dialect of Persian and Balochi language Sistani Words See also * Baas-o-Beyt * Gholamali Raisozzakerin References Sources * "The Status of [h] and [ʔ] in the Sistani Dialect of Miyankangi". Carina Jahani, Farideh Okati, Abbas Ali Ahangar. Iranian Journal of Applied Language Studies, 1:1 (2009), pp. 80–99. * "Natural Phonological Processes in Sistani Persian of Iran". Okati, Farideh, Ahangar, Abbas Ali, Anonby, Erik, Jahani, Carina. Iranian Journal of Applied Language Studies, 2:1, (2010), pp. 93–120. *Gilbert Lazard, Lazard, Gilbert (1974). “Morphologie du verbe dans le parler persan du Sistan”, in St ...
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Iran
Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI) and also known as Persia, is a country in West Asia. It borders Iraq to the west, Turkey, Azerbaijan, and Armenia to the northwest, the Caspian Sea to the north, Turkmenistan to the northeast, Afghanistan to the east, Pakistan to the southeast, and the Gulf of Oman and the Persian Gulf to the south. With a Ethnicities in Iran, multi-ethnic population of over 92 million in an area of , Iran ranks 17th globally in both List of countries and dependencies by area, geographic size and List of countries and dependencies by population, population. It is the List of Asian countries by area, sixth-largest country entirely in Asia and one of the world's List of mountains in Iran, most mountainous countries. Officially an Islamic republic, Iran is divided into Regions of Iran, five regions with Provinces of Iran, 31 provinces. Tehran is the nation's Capital city, capital, List of cities in Iran by province, largest city and financial ...
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Indo-European Languages
The Indo-European languages are a language family native to the northern Indian subcontinent, most of Europe, and the Iranian plateau with additional native branches found in regions such as Sri Lanka, the Maldives, parts of Central Asia (e.g., Tajikistan and Afghanistan), Armenia, and areas of southern India. Historically, Indo-European languages were also spoken in Anatolia. Some European languages of this family—English language, English, French language, French, Portuguese language, Portuguese, Russian language, Russian, Spanish language, Spanish, and Dutch language, Dutch—have expanded through colonialism in the modern period and are now spoken across several continents. The Indo-European family is divided into several branches or sub-families, including Albanian language, Albanian, Armenian language, Armenian, Balto-Slavic, Celtic languages, Celtic, Germanic languages, Germanic, Hellenic languages, Hellenic, Indo-Iranian languages, Indo-Iranian, and Italic languages, ...
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Languages Of Iran
Iran's ethnic diversity means that the languages of Iran come from a number of linguistic origins, although the primary language spoken and used is Persian. The Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Iran asserts that the Persian language alone must be used for schooling and for all official government communications. The constitution also recognizes Arabic as the language of Islam, and assigns it formal status as the language of religion. Although multilingualism is not encouraged, the use of minority languages is permitted in the course of teaching minority-language literature. Different publications have reported different statistics for the languages of Iran; however, the top three languages spoken are consistently reported as Persian, Azeri and Kurdish. Language policy and planning of Iran The current language policy of Iran is addressed in Chapter Two of the Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Iran (Articles 15 & 16). It asserts that the Persian language is t ...
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Sistani Culture
Sistani may refer to: *Sistan, a historical and geographical region in eastern Iran * Sistani (surname) * Sistani Persians, who mainly inhabit Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan *Sistani dialect Sistani ( , also known as Sistuni () is a dialect continuum of the Persian language spoken by Sistani Persian people, Sistani people in Iranian Sistan. It is part of the Southwestern Iranian languages, Southwestern Iranian branch of the Indo-Ira ... * Sistani Mahalleh, a village in Iran * Tolombeh-ye Habib Sistani, a village in Iran * Vahdapar va Arbandi Sistani, a village in Iran {{disambiguation, geo ...
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Gilbert Lazard
Gilbert Lazard ( – ) was a French linguist and Iranologist. His works include the study of various Iranian languages, translations of classical Persian poetry, and research on linguistic typology, notably on morphosyntactic alignment. He also studied various '' Polynesian languages'' most notably the Tahitian language. Career Gilbert Lazard studied at the ''École normale supérieure'', graduated in 1946 ('' agrégation de grammaire'') and 1948 (Persian language diploma of the ''École nationale des langues orientales vivantes'', now the '' Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales'' - INALCO). He became a professor of Persian at INALCO from 1958 to 1966. From 1951 to 1969, he was in charge of the Iranian civilization course at the Sorbonne, where he became a lecturer (''maître de conférences'') (in 1960) and a professor (in 1966) for Iranian language and civilization . From 1969 to 1981, he taught at the University of Paris III: Sorbonne Nouvelle, wher ...
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Gholamali Raisozzakerin
Gholamali Raeesolzakerin Dehbani () better known as ''Raeesolzakerin'', (31 March 1939 – 23 September 2021) was an Iranian author, anthropologist An anthropologist is a scientist engaged in the practice of anthropology. Anthropologists study aspects of humans within past and present societies. Social anthropology, cultural anthropology and philosophical anthropology study the norms, values ..., poet and singer. He was best known for his Sistanian poems and mainly considered as the father of modern Sistanian poetry. References 1939 births 2021 deaths Persian poetry Sistani culture People from Sistan and Baluchistan Province {{Iran-writer-stub ...
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Baas-o-Beyt
Baas-o-Beyt ( Sistanian: ) is a special kind of rhyming game common among Sistanian people and is generally considered as a genre of Sistanian poetry (called ''Seytak'') played by composing verses of Sistanian poems, along with some Sistanian dance and music. It is very similar to Bait bazi, Antakshari and Crambo as well. Etymology The term Baas-o-Beyt drives from Arabic Arabic (, , or , ) is a Central Semitic languages, Central Semitic language of the Afroasiatic languages, Afroasiatic language family spoken primarily in the Arab world. The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) assigns lang ... ''Bahs'' and ''Beyt'' meaning ''debate'' and ''two line poetry'', respectively. Example The first one starts the Baas-o-Beyt like this: :Rasido var sare rude Adimi () :Salāmo ale'ko e' yāre ghadimi! () :Bgofto dokhtarak bose' va me de () :maga kuri ke bābāyom nadidi? () :(I just got to the river Adimi, :Salutation to you, my old friend! :I said to her: ...
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Balochi Language
Balochi (, romanized: ) is a Northwestern Iranian language, spoken primarily in the Balochistan region of Pakistan, Iran and Afghanistan. In addition, there are speakers in Oman, the Arab states of the Persian Gulf, Turkmenistan, East Africa and in diaspora communities in other parts of the world. The total number of speakers, according to '' Ethnologue'', is million. Of these, 6.28 million are in Pakistan. Balochi varieties constitute a dialect continuum and collectively at least have 10 million native speakers. The main varieties of Balochi are Eastern (Soleimani), Southern (Makrani) and Western (Rakhshani). The Koroshi dialect is a dialect of the Balochi language, spoken mainly in the provinces of Fars and Hormozgan. According to Brian Spooner, Balochi belongs to the Western Iranian subgroup, and its original homeland is suggested to be around the central Caspian region. Classification Balochi is an Indo-European language, spoken by the Baloch and belongi ...
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Dialect Continuum
A dialect continuum or dialect chain is a series of Variety (linguistics), language varieties spoken across some geographical area such that neighboring varieties are Mutual intelligibility, mutually intelligible, but the differences accumulate over distance so that widely separated varieties may not be. This is a typical occurrence with widely spread languages and language families around the world, when these languages did not spread recently. Some prominent examples include the Indo-Aryan languages across large parts of India, varieties of Arabic across north Africa and southwest Asia, the Turkic languages, the varieties of Chinese, and parts of the Romance languages, Romance, Germanic languages, Germanic and Slavic languages, Slavic families in Europe. Terms used in older literature include dialect area (Leonard Bloomfield) and L-complex (Charles F. Hockett). Dialect continua typically occur in long-settled agrarian populations, as innovations spread from their various poin ...
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Sistani Persian People
The Sistani Persians () (also known as the Sistanis, Sajestani, and historically referred to Sagzi) are a branch of the Persian people who mainly live in Iranian Sistan in southeastern Iran. They inhabit the northern parts of Sistan and Balouchistan province, where they form minority. In recent decades, many Sistani people have also migrated to other parts of Iran, such as the provinces of Tehran and Golestan in northern Iran. Sistanis speak a dialect of Persian known as Sistani. Etymology Sistanis derive their name from ''Sakastan'' ("the land of the Saka"). The Sakas were a Scythian tribe migrated to the Iranian Plateau. The more ancient Old Persian name of the region – prior to Saka dominance – was ''Zaranka'' or ''Drangiana'' ("waterland"). This older form is also the root of the name Zaranj, capital of the Afghan Nimruz Province. The Drangians were listed among the peoples ruled by the legendary King Ninus before the Achaemenids. Its people were Zoroastrian. Sistan had ...
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Iranian Persian
Iranian Persian (), Western Persian or Western Farsi, natively simply known as Persian (), refers to the Variety (linguistics), varieties of the New Persian, Persian language spoken in Iran and by others in neighboring countries, as well as by Iranian diaspora, Iranian communities throughout the world. These are intelligible with other varieties of Persian language, Persian, including Afghanistan's Dari and Tajikistan's Tajik language, Tajik. Persian or Farsi serves as the predominant and official spoken language in Iran, with 61.5 million mother tongue speakers in 2023 and 17.2 million second language speakers in 2021. Name Iran's national language has been called, apart from ''Persian'' or ''Farsi'', by names such as ''Iranian Persian'', ''Western Persian'' and ''Western Farsi'', exclusively. Officially, the national language of Iran is designated simply as ''Persian'' (, ).Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Iran: Chapter II, Article 15: "The official language and script ...
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