Kurdish is often portrayed as a linguistic unity, but an examination of phonological structures
in the language reveals substantial internal variation. In this study, we examine the …

The enterprise of classification is central to the construction of a language atlas, particularly
in the Iranian context. While existing two-dimensional models of language classification are …

This paper investigates effects of language contact on a previously undocumented variety of
Turkic (Southern West Oghuz) spoken by sedentarized nomads in the city of Boldaji, Chahar …

Language documentation has been carried out in Iran since the late 1800s but in a sporadic
way, and even now, the scholarly picture of the country's linguistic landscape is fragmentary …

On the southern shores of the Caspian Sea–the world's largest lake–lies Iran's fourth
smallest province, Gilan. With a population of just over 2.5 million people (ISC 2016), Gilan's …

The Atlas of the Languages of Iran (ALI), initiated in 2014, is a long-term research
programme that aims to develop a comprehensive overview of the language situation in …

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