Abduyi dialect

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Native to Iran Glottolog None		Native speakers ca. 600 (date missing)
Language family Indo-EuropeanIndo-IranianIranianWestern IranianNorthwestern IranianKurdishSouthern KurdishAbduyi Regulated by Academy of Persian Language and Literature

The Abduyi dialect (Kurdish: عبدویی‎, UniPers: Abduyi) is a Northwestern Iranian language spoken in the village of Abduyi, reachable from Kazerun city in Southern Iran, through the old road of Shiraz-Kazerun after 36 kilometers. The number of households of the village has been around 120 in 2004. . The dialect is identified as Kurdish by most researchers.

Phonology

The transcription used here is an approximation.

Vowels

short: â, a, e, i, o, u
long: â:, ā, ē, ī, ō, ū

Consonants

voiced dental fricative: ð, a sound near to English voiced "th", generally after vowels, like in 'taðuk' (cockroach).

palatal stops: front 'g' and 'k', like in 'kačče' (chin) and girib (cry).

voiced velar fricative: γ, like in 'jeγarek' (hailstone).

alveolar trill: like in 'borre' (flail).

Verbs

Infinitive markers: -san, -tan, -dan.

Nouns

Stresses on different vowels make nouns definite or indefinite. Example:
že (woman), tuhu (house).
Definite: žení (the woman), tevedí (the house).
Indefinite: žéni (a woman), tevédi (a house).

The plural is marked by the suffixes: -gal, -al, -u and -yu. Examples:
sib (apple) → sib-yu (apples)
morb (hen) → morb-u (hens)
âdam (person) → âdam-gal (persons)

References

Abduyi dialect Wikipedia

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