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Sangsari language

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Region
  
Elburz

Writing system
  
none

Native speakers
  
36,000 (2006 census)

ISO 639-3
  
sgr

Native to
  
Semnan, Mazanderan, Tehran, Golestan & Markazi provinces of Iran.

Language family
  
Indo-European Indo-Iranian Iranian Western Iranian Semnani Sangsari

Sangsari or Sangisari is an Iranian language spoken mainly in the Semnan and Tehran provinces of Iran specially in the Sangesar (Mahdi Shehr) town and in several surrounding villages. Sangsari is included in the Semnani group of Northwest Iranian languages that also includes Lasgerdi, Semnani, and Sorkhei. There are around 36,000 Sangsari speakers.

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Phonology

The vowels of Sangsari are /a, a:, e, e:, i, o, ö, u, u:/. The consonants are the same as in Persian.

Pronouns

Sangseri distinguishes two numbers in pronouns—singular and plural—and marks two cases in the singular—the direct (nominative) and the oblique (other cases). Masculine and feminine forms are distinct in the singular third person pronouns.

References

Sangsari language Wikipedia