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Khunsari language

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Khansari
Khusaari
Native toIran
Native speakers
21,000 (2000)[1]
Indo-European
Language codes
ISO 639-3kfm
Glottologkhun1255
ELPKhunsari

Khunsari dialect (Persian: گویش خوانساری) is a Central dialect within the Northwestern Iranian languages, spoken in Khansar, a town in the west of Isfahan Province of Iran. Some of the oldest isoglosses include the development of Aryan palatals to fricatives: OIr. *dz > z: mossar “big”, kissar “small”, heze “yesterday”, zun- “know”, zumā “son-in-law” (but yešt “ugly” < SW *a-dushta-, cf. NPers. zesht < NW *a-zushta- “unloved”); *tsw > sp: isba, espa “dog” (< Median spaka-), espid “white”, ešpiž “louse”.

References

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  1. ^ Khansari at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)

Further reading

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  • Eilers, Wilhelm (1976). Die Mundart von Chunsar [The Dialect of Khunsar]. Westiranische Mundarten aus der Sammlung Wilhelm Eilers (in German). Vol. 1. Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag GMBH. ISBN 3-515-02009-8.
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