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Semnani (سمنی زفون, Semani zefön) is one of the local languages of the Semnan Province of
Iran Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and also called Persia, is a country located in Western Asia. It is bordered by Iraq and Turkey to the west, by Azerbaijan and Armenia to the northwest, by the Caspian Sea and Turkmeni ...
. Despite the common misconception that Semnani is a Persian dialect, the language belongs to the Northwestern branch of the Western Iranian languages. Like other Caspian languages, it bears some resemblance to the Old Iranian Median language and was influenced by Parthian in a later process.


Phonology


Consonants

(Where symbols appear in pairs, the one to the right represents a voiced consonant. Allophones are in parentheses.)


Grammar


Syntax

Subjects in Semnani must have gender agreement with the verb in their immediate clause.


Notes


Bibliography

Pierre Lecoq. 1989. "Les dialectes caspiens et les dialectes du nord-ouest de l'Iran," ''Compendium Linguarum Iranicarum''. Ed. Rüdiger Schmitt. Wiesbaden: Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag. Pages 296-314. Northwestern Iranian languages Caspian languages {{Iran-stub th:กลุ่มภาษาเซมมานี