Koroshi dialect
For other uses, see Koroshi.
| Koroshi | |
|---|---|
| کوروشی | |
| Native to | Iran |
Native speakers | (undated figure of 160–200 = 40–50 families)[1] |
| Official status | |
| Regulated by | Academy of Persian Language and Literature |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 |
ktl |
| Glottolog |
koro1296[2] |
Koroshi (Balochi: کوروشی), is a Balochi dialect.[3][4] 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.[5] According to Ethnologue the dialect has 180 speaker within 40 to 50 families.[6]
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
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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
References
- ↑ Koroshi at Ethnologue (13th ed., 1996).
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Koroshi". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- ↑ Payne, J.R. (1987). Bernard Comrie, ed. The World's Major Languages. Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 514. ISBN 978-0-19-506511-4.
- ↑ Ethnologue report for Southwestern Iranian languages
- ↑ Salami, A., 1385 AP / 2006 AD. Ganjineye guyeššenâsiye Fârs (The treasury of the dialectology of Fars). Third Volume, The academy of Persian language and literature. ISBN 964-7531-54-0 (in Persian)
- ↑ Ethnologue Languages of the world, Koroshi
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