There have been a number of important efforts to map out the languages of Iran, but until
now no language atlas, or even a comprehensive and detailed country-level language map …

KordestanisoneoffourprovincesinIranwhere… the mainspoken language. A small number
ofstudies of specific language varieties inKordestanProvincehave appeared, and …

This book is a detailed study of contact-induced change in the Neo-Aramaic dialect of the
Jews of Sanandaj, a town in western Iran. Since its foundation in early 17th century, the city …

Traditional language atlases present a single view of language that of their makers (Girnth,
2010). This bias is especially evident in the production of language distribution maps …

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 …

In this article, I present an introductory overview of the Jewish Neo-Aramaic dialects,
followed by a study of various aspects of contact-induced change that are exhibited by these …

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 …

Abstract The North-Eastern Neo-Aramaic (NENA) dialects exhibit a wide range of reflexes of
the historical interdental consonants* θ and* ð. These were originally post-vocalic fricative …

A cursory examination of the grammar of Kurdish and Gorani varieties shows the existence
of convergence. In this chapter, I examine several obvious and several less apparent …

This article provides an analysis of two Bakhtiari poems from linguistic and literary
perspectives–one by Bahman Alaeddin (šaʋ čārdah 'Fourteenth Night') and another one, in …