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Koroshi dialect

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Native to
  
Iran

Glottolog
  
koro1296

ISO 639-3
  
ktl

Native speakers
  
(undated figure of 160–200 = 40–50 families)

Language family
  
Indo-European Indo-Iranian Iranian Western Iranian Northwestern II Balochi Koroshi

Regulated by
  
Academy of Persian Language and Literature

Koroshi (Balochi: کوروشی‎‎), is a Balochi dialect. The speakers of Koroshi live in scattered pockets in Southern Iranian Fars province. The number of speakers was roughly estimated to be 1000 in 2006. According to Ethnologue the dialect has 180 speaker within 40 to 50 families.

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Phonology

The transcription used here is only an approximation:

Vowels

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

    • Consonants

  • fricative: ð, like in, 'sað' (hundred).
  • voiced velar fricative: γ, like in 'maγz' (copula).
  • alveolar trill: like in 'arra' (saw, the hand tool).
  • palatal: 'g' and 'k', like in 'heykal' (body) and 'merzeng' (eyelash).

    • Verbs

  • Infinitive markers: -ag ('g' is palatal here).

    • Nouns

  • The suffixes "-yok" and "-â" make nouns definite. Examples:

    • golâbi (pear) → golâbi-yok (the pear)
    bâmard (man) → bâmard-â (the man)

  • The indefinite marker is "i". Example:

    • čok (child) → čokk-i (a child)

  • The plural is marked by the suffixes "-gal" and "obâr" . Examples:

    • mardin (man) → mardin-gal (men)
    sib (apple) → sib-obâr (apples)

  • Adjectives are placed before nouns. Examples:

    • siyâhayn angur (black grape)
    qašanguveyn pirâhâm (beautiful shirt)

    References

    Koroshi dialect Wikipedia
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