Sangsari language

Sangsari
Spoken in Semnan & Mazandaran & Golestan & Markazi provinces of Iran.
Region Elburz
Native speakers 36,000  (2006)
Language family
Writing system none
Language codes
ISO 639-3 sgr

Sangsari or Sangisari is an Iranian language spoken in the Semnan province of Iran mainly in the Sangsar (Mahdi Shehr) town and in several surrounding villages. Sangsari is included in the Semnani group of Northwest Iranian languages that also includes Lasgerdi, Semnani, and Sorkhei.[1] There are around 36,000 Sangsari speakers.[2]

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Phonology

The vowels of Sangsari are /a, a:, e, e:, i, o, ö, u, u:/. The consonants are the same as in Persian.[3]

Pronouns

Sangseri distinguishes two numbers in pronouns—singular and plural—and marks two cases in the singular—the direct (nominative) and the oblique (other cases). Masculine and feminine forms are distinct in the singular third person pronouns.[4]

1 sg 2 sg 3 sg masc. 3 sg fem. 1 pl 2 pl 3 pl
dir. a tö nö nā ham xā anun
obl. ma ta ne nī ham xā anun

Notes

  1. ^ Ethnologue listing of Semnani languages
  2. ^ Ethnologue listing for Sangisari
  3. ^ Lecoq, pg. 309.
  4. ^ Lecoq, pg. 309.

References

Pierre Lecoq. 1989. "Les dialectes caspiens et les dialectes du nord-ouest de l'Iran," Compendium Linguarum Iranicarum. Ed. Rüdiger Schmitt. Wiesbaden: Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag. Pages 296-314.

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