Dezfuli (local names: دزفولی
ezfulior دسفیلی
esfili is a
Persian dialect
Persian (), also known by its endonym Farsi (, ', ), is a Western Iranian language belonging to the Iranian branch of the Indo-Iranian subdivision of the Indo-European languages. Persian is a pluricentric language predominantly spoken and u ...
spoken in
Dezful
Dezful ( fa, دزفول, pronounced , Dezfuli dialect: Desfil, pronounced ) also Romanized as Dezfūl and Dezfool; also known as Dīzfūl and Ab I Diz is a city and capital of Dezful County, Khuzestan Province, Iran. At the 2011 census, its popul ...
in the province of
Khuzestan
Khuzestan Province (also spelled Xuzestan; fa, استان خوزستان ''Ostān-e Xūzestān'') is one of the 31 provinces of Iran. It is in the southwest of the country, bordering Iraq and the Persian Gulf. Its capital is Ahvaz and it covers ...
in Iran. It constitutes a language with the
Shushtari dialect
Shushtari ( fa, شوشتری uʃtæri is a Persian dialect spoken in and around the city of Shushtar in Khuzestan Province in southwestern Iran. It constitutes a language with the Dezfuli dialect, which is spoken in Dezful
Dezful ( fa, دزف ...
, which is spoken in
Shushtar
Shushtar ( fa, شوشتر; also Romanized as Shūshtar and Shūstar and Shooshtar) is a city and capital of Shushtar County, Khuzestan Province, Iran.
Shushtar is an ancient fortress city, approximately from Ahvaz, the centre of the province. ...
, the adjacent city. The main difference between Dezfuli and Shushtari is in vowel pronunciation.
Personal pronouns
References
*Colin MacKinnon, http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/dezful-03-dialect
Persian dialects and varieties
Khuzestan Province
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