The aim of the present paper is to study the status of the short vowels /i/ and /u/ in five selected Iranian Balochi dialects. These dialects are spoken in Sistan (SI), Saravan (SA), Khash (KH), Iranshahr (IR), and Chabahar (CH) regions located in province Sistan va Baluchestan in the southeast of Iran. This study investigates whether these two vowels have the same qualities as the short /i/ an...

the present research attempts to describe, examine and analyze the nature and quality, as well as the linguistic origins, of the verbs in the novel missing soluch. since a, main concern in dowlatabadi 's writing style has been the use of a rich, well-wrought language, he has taken great advantage of various persian language treasures, such as: the standard language, tehrani`s colloquial languag...

kurmanji is probably the most well known variety of kurdish language. apart from such countries as turkey, iraq, syria, and some areas in western iran, it is spoken in khorasan-e shomali and khorasan-e razavi provinces in north-east iran. the residents of biglar –a village near quchan in north-west khorasan-e razavi province- as well as many other people living in the neighboring villages speak...

the aim of the present paper is to study the status of the short vowels /i/ and /u/ in five selected iranian balochi dialects. these dialects are spoken in sistan (si), saravan (sa), khash (kh), iranshahr (ir), and chabahar (ch) regions located in province sistan va baluchestan in the southeast of iran. this study investigates whether these two vowels have the same qualities as the short /i/ an...

Although widely-studied in recent years, Language Identification (LID) systems for determining the language of input texts often fail to discriminate between similar languages like Croatian-Serbian and Malay-Indonesian. This has brought attention to the task of discriminating similar languages, varieties and dialects – including a recent shared task [3]. Persian (also known as Farsi) and Dari (...

this paper provides an optimality-theoretic account of dissimilation in standard persian as well as some other accents and dialects of persian. as such, this work starts by introducing optimality theory (henceforth ot) and its basic concepts and then it investigates dissimilation in this framework. it argues for the superiority of ot over derivational approaches regarding a case in which both d...

the paper aims at describing verbal tense system in the dialect of adkan, a village in khorasan-e shomali province in the northeast of iran. it seems that this dialect is one of the tati dialects in the area. since the main objective was to collect the oldest dialect, the data was gathered by interviewing some educated and uneducated old and middle-aged speakers. this study which is the first s...

cultural diffusion is a process through which cultural sets or elements are transferred from one culture or society to another, absorbed gradually and cause its change. base on this theory, a cultural issue which is considered as a sign of a society is, borrowed by the other society and is accepted. because of natural conditions and its long history, kerman province has met a variety of things ...