Khorasani Turkish language

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Khorasani Turkish
Spoken in: Iran 
Region: Khorasan
Total speakers: Unknown
Language family: Altaic
 Turkic
  Oghuz
   Khorasani Turkish
Language codes
ISO 639-1: none
ISO 639-2: tut
ISO 639-3: kmz


Khorasani Turkish (تركي خراساني / Xorasan Türkçeəsı) is variety of speech belonging to the Turkic language family. It is spoken in northern Khorasan in Iran. Khorasani Turkish speakers also speak the Persian language.[1]

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[edit] Geographic Distribution

Khorasani Turkish is spoken in the Iranian provinces of North Khorasan, near Bojnourd, and Razavi Khorasan, near Sabzevar, Quchan, and Mashhad. If the Oghuz dialect of Uzbek is considered a dialect of Khorasani Turkish, its range extends into southern Uzbekistan.

[edit] Dialects

Khorasani Turkish is split into North, South, and West dialects. The northern dialect is spoken in North Khorasan near Quchan; the southern in Soltanabad near Sabzevar; the western around Bojnourd.

[edit] Classification and Related Languages

Khorasani Turkish belongs to the Oghuz group of Turkic languages, which also includes Turkish, Azerbaijani, Gagauz, Turkmen, and Salar, as well as the Oghuz dialect spoken in Uzbekistan. Khorasani Turkish is most closely related to Oghuz Uzbek and Turkmen and is close to the Azerbaijani dialects spoken in Iran. As it is similar to other languages in the region, its status as a language or dialect is debated.

[edit] Sounds

[edit] Consonants

Consonant phonemes
  Labial Alveolar Palatal Velar Uvular Glottal
Plosive p b t d     k g q      
Affricate         ʧ ʤ            
Fricative f v s z ʃ   x ɣ     h  
Nasal m n ɲ ŋ        
Flap/Tap     r                
Lateral     l                
Approximant         j            

[edit] Vowels

Karakalpak vowels

[edit] Morphology

[edit] Nouns

[edit] Pluralization

Pluralization is marked on nouns with the suffix -lAr, which has the two forms -lar and -lær, depending on vowel harmony.

[edit] Case

Nouns in Khorasani Turkish take a number of case endings that change based on vowel harmony and whether they follow a vowel or a consonant:

Case After Vowels After Consonants
Nominative No Ending
Genitive niŋ/nin iŋ/in
Dative ya/yæ a/æ
Accusative ni/nɯ i/ɯ
Locative da/dæ
Ablative dan/dæn
Instrumental nan/næn

[edit] Possession

Possession is marked with a suffix on the possessed noun.

Singular Plural
First Person (I)m (I)mIz
Second Person (I)ŋ (I)ŋIz
Third Person (s)I lArI

[edit] Pronouns

Khorasani Turkish has six personal pronouns. Occasionally, personal pronouns take different case endings from regular nouns.

Singular Plural
First Person mæn bɯz
Second Person sæn siz
Third Person o olar

[edit] Verbs

Verbs are declined for tense, aspect, mood, person, and number. The infinitive form of the verb ends in -max.

[edit] Examples

Excerpt from Tulu (1989) p. 90
Translation IPA
Thus, there was a padishah named Ziyad. ɑl ɣəssa bir ziyæːd pæːdiʃæːhiː bæːɾɨdɨ
Almighty God had given him no son. xodɒːʷændi æːlæm ona hiʧ ɔɣul ataː elæmɑmiʃdi
There he spoke to his vizier: "O Vizier, I have no son. What shall I do about it?" bæːdæn vaziːɾæ dədi, ej vaziːɾ, mændæ ki ɔɣul joxdɨ, mæn næ ʧaːɾæ eylem
The vizier said: "Ruler of the whole world, what will you do with this possession?" vaziːɾ dədi, pɒːdiʃaː-i ɢɨblæ-ji ɒːlæm, sæn bu mɒːlɨ-æmwɒːlɨ næjlijæsæn

[edit] References

Tulu, Sultan (1989). Chorasantürkische Materialien aus Kalāt bei Esfarāyen. Berlin: Klaus Schwarz Verlag. ISBN 3-922968-88-0. 

Doerfer, Gerhard; Hesche, Wolfram (1993). Chorasantürkisch: Wörterlisten, Kurzgrammatiken, Indices. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz. ISBN 3-447-03320-7. 

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