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Korouni dialect

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Native to
  
Iran

Glottolog
  
None

Language family
  
Indo-European Indo-Iranian Iranian Western Iranian Northwestern Iranian Kurdish Southern Kurdish Korouni

Regulated by
  
Academy of Persian Language and Literature

Korouni (Kurdish: کرونی‎), is a Southern Kurdish dialect of Fars and Kurdistan. Koruni is a Kurdish tribe of Kurdistan and Fars. Most of the tribe was transplanted from Kurdistan to Fars by Karim Khan Zand during the 1760s.

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The speakers of Korouni live in scattered pockets in Southern Iranian Fars province around Shiraz, Sepidan and Kazerun. The succeeding information is about the dialect spoken around the latter two cities.

Phonology

The transcription used here is only an approximation:

Vowels

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

    • Consonants

  • fricative: ð, like in, 'peðar' (father).
  • voiced velar fricative: γ, like in 'tiγ' (thorn).
  • alveolar trill: like in 'borra' (flail).
  • palatal: 'g' and 'k', like in 'gilas' (cherry) and 'goruk' (hank of yarn) for 'k'.

    • Verbs

  • Infinitive markers: -ân, -in, -en

    • Nouns

  • The suffix "-aka" makes nouns definite. Examples:

    • čerâγ (lamp) → čerâγ-aka (the lamp)

  • The indefinite marker is "i". Example:

    • melâl (child) → melâl-i (a child)

  • The plural is marked by the suffix "-al" . Examples:

    • sif (apple) → sif-al-aka (the apples)
    orsi (shoe) → orsi-y-al-aka (the shoes) ('y' is used if noun ends in vowel)

    References

    Korouni dialect Wikipedia
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