Koroshi dialect

Koroshi
کوروشی
Spoken in	Iran
Region	Middle East
Native speakers	ca. 1000  (date missing)
Language family	Indo-European Indo-Iranian Iranian Western Iranian Northwestern Iranian Koroshi
Official status
Regulated by	Academy of Persian Language and Literature
Language codes
ISO 639-3	ktl

The Koroshi dialect (Balochi: کوروشی), is a Northwestern Iranian language.^[1][2] The speakers of Koroshi live in scattered pockets in Southern Iranian Fars province. The number of speakers was roughly estimated to be 1000 in 2006.^[3]

Contents 1 Phonology 1.1 Vowels 1.2 Consonants 2 Grammar 2.1 Verbs 2.2 Nouns 3 Vocabulary 4 Example Sentences 5 See also 6 References

Phonology

The transcription used here is only an approximation:

Vowels

• short: â, a, e, i, o, u
• long: â:, ā, ē, ī, ō, ū

Consonants

• fricative: ð, like in, 'sað' (hundred).
• voiced velar fricative: γ, like in 'maγz' (copula).
• alveolar trill: like in 'arra' (saw, the hand tool).
• palatal: 'g' and 'k', like in 'heykal' (body) and 'merzeng' (eyelash).

Grammar

Verbs

• Infinitive markers: -ag ('g' is palatal here).

Nouns

• The suffixes "-yok" and "-â" make nouns definite. Examples:

golâbi (pear) → golâbi-yok (the pear)
bâmard (man) → bâmard-â (the man)

• The indefinite marker is "i". Example:

čok (child) → čokk-i (a child)

• The plural is marked by the suffixes "-gal" and "obâr" . Examples:

mardin (man) → mardin-gal (men)
sib (apple) → sib-obâr (apples)

• Adjectives are placed before nouns. Examples:

siyâhayn angur (black grape)
qašanguveyn pirâhâm (beautiful shirt)

Vocabulary

Example Sentences

English	Koroshi	Balochi	Persian
What is this?	i či-yen?	ای چی اِن	این چیست؟
Where is Ali?	ali ko-yen?	علی کواِن، علی کجا اِن	علی کجاست؟
This horse is white.	i asp esbiyeð-en.	ای اسپیتیں اسپ اِن	.این اسب سفید است
They say he works ten hours a day.	maya šey-ant rōč-i dah sâat kâr makan-a.	آ گشنت روچی دہ سائت کار کنت	.میگویند روزی ده ساعت کار میکند
I have two small brothers and sisters.	do tâ kâkâ(berâd) vo gâhâr-e kassân assen-om.	?	.دو برادر و خواهر کوچک دارم
If you will go just once to their village, you won't forget the hospitality of its people.	aga faqat ya dafâ ba âšâni dâhâ rafayado âšâni mehmândâriyâ hič vaxt yâdo anaraft.	?	.اگر تنها یکبار به ده آنها رفته باشی، مهمان‌نوازی مردم آنجا را هرگز از یاد نخواهی برد
Who called me?	kayad manâ ganki jad?	کیا منا گوانک جت	چه کسی مرا صدا زد؟

See also

• Dialects of Fars
• Northwestern Iranian languages
• Iranian languages

References