Deilami language

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deilami ديلميdilemi
Spoken in:	Iran
Region:	South Western Caspian Sea (Gilan , mazandaran , ghazvin , turkish province.)
Total speakers:	3-4 million
Language family:	Indo-European  Indo-Iranian   Iranian    Western     Northwestern      deilami
Language codes
ISO 639-1:	none
ISO 639-2:	ira
ISO 639-3:	dlm
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The deilami language (Persian: البرزي، ديلمي) is local regional dialect of the Persian language, and a member of northwestern Iranian language branch, spoken in Iran's Gīlān , mazandaran , ghazvin Province. Within the deilami dialect, there at least three localized sub-dialects: Galeshi and roudbari and jirandehi and alamouti and khorgami and deilamani and .... The deilami dialect of the Persian is closely related to the tabari dialect of neighboring tabari Province, and the two languages have similar vocabularies. The western and eastern dialects are separated by the Sefid River (Rud-e Sefid)^[1]. According to Ethnologue, there were more than 3-4 million native speakers of deilami in 1993 ^[2].

deilami also shares many features and structures with Zazaki, now spoken in Turkey and the Talysh language. There are somegrammatical differences between Gilaki and standard Persian, especially in possessive and adjectives. Unlike Persian, most possessives and adjectives precede the head noun, similar to English.^[3]

• Example for noun-noun possessives in deilami: məhini jeghelan (Mæhin's children) (Bæče-ha-ye Mæhin in Persian), Baghi gulan (garden flowers) (Gol-ha-ye Baγ in Persian).

• Example for adjectival modification: deilami: pilla jeghelan (big children), Surx gul (red flower). Eastern Gilaki: Sərd aw (cold water) (ɑb-e særd in Persian), kul čaqu (sharp knife) (čaqu-ye Tiz in Persian).

Contents 1 Some deilami words 2 Comparison of deilami and Kurdish 3 Verb system 3.1 Present tenses 3.1.1 Present indicative 3.1.2 Present subjunctive 3.2 Past tenses 3.2.1 Preterite 3.2.2 Imperfect 3.2.3 Pluperfect 3.2.4 Past subjunctive 3.3 Progressive 3.3.1 Present progressive 3.3.2 Past progressive 3.4 Compound verbs 4 Nouns, cases and postpositions 4.1 Cases 4.1.1 Nouns 4.1.2 Pronouns 4.2 Postpositions 5 Adjectives 6 Notes 7 See also

[edit] Some deilami words

deilami	English	Persian	Persian Romanization
roo	face	روي/چهره	ruy/chehreh
jegheleh	baby/kid	کودک/بچه	kudæk/bæčé
baba	grandfather	پدربزرگ	pedær bozorg
zaman	time	زمان	zaman
shoo piar	father of the hasband	پدرشوهر	pedær shohar
karg	hen	مرغ خانگی	morgh khanegi
gav	cow	گاو	gaav
jowar	up	بالا	ba:la
setareh	star	ستاره	setaré
kikay	girl	دختر	doxtær
kotay	boy	پسر	pesær
pitar	ant	مورچه	murčé
zardeh	bee	زنبور	zanbur
picha	cat/pussy (cat)	گربه/پیشی	gorbe/piši
sayeh	shadow	سایه	saye
aghaten	to hang	آویزان کردن/آویختن	avixtan/avizan kardan
aneghaten	not to hang	آویزان نکردن	na.avixtan/avizan nakardan
pila	great	بزرگ	bozorg
jegheleh	kid	بچه	bačče
piar/dada	father	پدر	pedar
keresh kashian	draw on the ground	کشیدن به دنبال	be donbal kešidan
makesten	suck	مکیدن	makidan
havas	appetite or desire	اشتها or میل	ešteha or meyl
shanden	pouring of liquids	ریختن مایعات	rixtan e mayeaat
lisk	lubricious	ليز / سور	leez/sor
kårč=kerč	brittle	ترد و شکننده	tord o šekanande
där	tree	دار و درخت	där o deraxt
malijeh	sparrow	گنجشک	gonješk
bosho	go	برو	boro
agir	take it in your hand	بگیر	begir
amagir	don't take in your hand	نگیر	nagir
perd	bridge	پل	pol
si	stone and mountain	کوه و سنگ	koh o sang
kenes	touch	تماس	tamås
marghaneh	egg	تخم مرغ	toxm e morq
mar	Snake	مار	Mar
Picha	Cat	گربه	Gorbeh
kelach	Crow	کلاغ	Kalagh
Garmalat	Pepper	فلفل	Felfel
Pamador	Tomato	گوجه فرنگی	Gojeh
Vatarkasan	Explode	ترکیدن	Terkidan
Shimi Shin	For You	برای شما	Baraye Shoma
menereh	For Me	برای من	Baraye Man
kishkazay	Chicken	جوجه	Joojeh
Varza	Male Cow	گاو نر	Gave Nar
lisheh	Female Cow	گاو ماده	Gave Maddeh
Bojor	UP	بالا	BALA
Bijir	Down	پائین	Paein
Loochan	Wink	چشمک	Cheshmak
bejar	Rice Farm	مزرعه برنج	Mazraeye berenj

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[edit] Comparison of deilami and Kurdish

deilami	English	Kurdish
jegheleh	baby/kid	zarok
joar	up	jor/jûr
kiĵa/kilka	girl	kîj
daar	tree	dar
bošu	go	biçe
purd	bridge	pird
zama	groom	zawa
kaft	fell	keft/kewt

The consonants are:

deilami Consonants

	labial	alveolar	post-alveolar	velar	glottal
voiceless stops	p	t	ʧ	k	ʔ
voiced stops	b	d	ʤ	ɡ
voiceless fricatives	f	s	ʃ	x	h
voiced fricatives	v	z	ʒ	ɣ
nasals	m	n
liquids		l, ɾ
glides			j

[edit] Verb system

The verb system of deilami is very similar to that of Persian. All infinitives end in -tən/-dən, or in -V:n, where V: is a long vowel (from contraction of an original *-Vdən). The present stem is usually related to the infinitive, and the past stem is just the infinitive without -ən or -n (in the case of vowel stems).

[edit] Present tenses

From the infinitive dín, "to see", we get present stem din-.

[edit] Present indicative

The present indicative is formed by adding the personal endings to this stem:

Singular	Plural
dinəm	diním(i)
diní	diníd(i)
diné	diníd(i)

[edit] Present subjunctive

The present subjunctive is formed with the prefix bí-, bú-, or bə- (depending on the vowel in the stem) added to the indicative forms. Final /e/ neutralizes to /ə/ in the 3rd singular and the plural invariably lacks final /i/.

Singular	Plural
bídinəm	bídinim
bídini	bídinid
bídinə	bídinid

The negative of both the indicative and the subjunctive is formed in the same way, with n- instead of the b- of the subjunctive.

[edit] Past tenses

[edit] Preterite

From xurdən, "to eat", we get the perfect stem xurd. To this are added unaccented personal endings and the unaccented b- prefix (or accented n- for the negative):

Singular	Plural
buxúrdəm	buxúrdim(i)
buxúrdi	buxúrdid(i)
buxúrdə	buxúrdid(i)

[edit] Imperfect

The imperfect is formed with what was originally a suffix -i:

xúrdim	xúrdim(i)
xúrdi	xúrdid(i)
xúrdi	xúrdid(i)

[edit] Pluperfect

The pluperfect is paraphrastically formed with the verb bon, "to be", and the past participle, which is in turn formed with the perfect stem+ə (which can assimilate to become i or u). The accent can fall on the last syllable of the participle or on the stem itself:

Singular	Plural
buxurdə bum	buxurdə bim
buxurdə bi	buxurdə bid
buxurdə bu	buxurdə bid

[edit] Past subjunctive

A curious innovation of Western Gilaki is the past subjunctive, which is formed with the (artificial) imperfect of bon+past participle:

Singular	Plural
bidé bim	bidé bim
bidé bi	bidé bid
bidé be/bi	bidé bid

This form is often found in the protasis and apodosis of unreal conditions, e.g., mən agə Əkbəra bidé bim, xušhal bubosti bim, "If I were to see/saw/had seen Akbar, I would be happy".

[edit] Progressive

There are two very common paraphrastic constructions for the present and past progressives. From the infinitive šon, "to go", we get:

[edit] Present progressive

Singular	Plural
šón darəm	šón darim
šón dari	šón darid
šón darə	šón darid

[edit] Past progressive

Singular	Plural
šón də/du bum	šón də/di bim
šón də/di bi	šón də/di bid
šón də/du bu	šón də/di bid

[edit] Compound verbs

There are many compound verbs in deilami, whose forms differ slightly from simple verbs. Most notably, bV- is never prefixed onto the stem, and the negative prefix nV- can act like an infix -n-, coming between the prefix and the stem. So from fagiftən, "to get", we get present indicative fagirəm, but present subjunctive fágirəm, and the negative of both, faángirəm or fanígirəm. The same applies to the negative of the past tenses: fángiftəm or fanígiftəm.

[edit] Nouns, cases and postpositions

Gilaki employs a combination of quasi-case endings and postpositions to do the work of many particles and prepositions in English and Persian.

[edit] Cases

There are essentially three "cases" in deilami, the nominative (or, better, unmarked, as it can serve other grammatical functions), the genitive, and the (definite) accusative. The accusative form is often used to express the simple indirect object in addition to the direct object. A noun in the genitive comes before the word it modifies. These "cases" are in origin actually just particles, similar to Persian ra.

[edit] Nouns

For the word "per", father, we have:

	Singular	Plural
Nom	per	perán
Acc	pera	perána
Gen	perə	peránə

The genitive can change to -i, especially before some postpositions.

[edit] Pronouns

The 1st and 2nd person pronouns have special forms:

	Singular	Plural
Nom	mən	amán
Acc	məra	amána
Gen	mi	amí

	Singular	Plural
Nom	tu	šumán
Acc	təra	šumána
Gen	ti	šimí

The 3rd person (demonstrative) pronouns are regular: /un/, /u.ˈʃan/, /i.ˈʃan/

[edit] Postpositions

With the genitive can be combined many postpositions. Examples:

deilami	English
re	for
həmra	with
ĵa	from, than (in comparisons)
mian	in
ĵor	above
ĵir	under
ru	on top of

The personal pronouns have special forms with "-re": mere, tere, etc.

[edit] Adjectives

Gilaki adjectives come before the noun they modify, and may have the genitive "case ending" -ə/-i. They do not agree with the nouns they modify.

[edit] Notes

[edit] See also

• deilami WiktionaryZ
• Wikipedia in deilami
• tabari language, Another Caspian language

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