Khunsari language
| Khansari | |
|---|---|
| Khusaari | |
| Native to | Iran |
Native speakers | 21,000 (2000)[1] |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 |
kfm |
| Glottolog |
khun1255[2] |
Khunsari dialect is a Central dialect within the South Median branch of Northwestern Iranian languages, spoken in Khansar, a town in the west of Isfahan Province of Iran. Some of the oldest isoglosses include the development of Aryan palatals to fricatives: OIr. *dz > z: mossar “big”, kissar “small”, heze “yesterday”, zun- “know”, zumā “son-in-law” (but yešt “ugly” < SW *a-dushta-, cf. NPers. zesht < NW *a-zushta- “ungeliebt”); *tsw > sp: isba, espa “dog” (< Median spaka-), espid “white”, ešpiž “louse”.
References
- ↑ Khansari at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Khunsari". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.