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 …

English as an international language has widely spread its realm throughout the world. The
number of Iranians learning English in both public and private education sectors is …

Pronominal clitics comprise one of the important traits of the majority of West Iranian
languages. Nevertheless, while these person clitics have been the subject of virtually …

Kurdish, an Indo-European language spoken by over 30 million speakers, is considered a
dialect continuum and known for its diversity in language varieties. Previous studies …

This book presents a documentation and analysis of Harsini, the language variety spoken by
the people of Harsin, a small urban centre located in south-east Kermānshāh Province …

Abstract The Nunaliit Atlas Framework is a collaborative mapping platform designed for
creating interactive online atlases following the principles of cybercartography. This paper …

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 …

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 …

Most studies on language contact in Iran have focused on the effects of Persian on the
country's minority languages. There are also many cases where large regional languages …

The present study investigates several linguistic factors that might be determinants of
differences in the ease of acquisition of relative clauses (RCs) in L2 contexts, using the …