Vocabulary Changes in the Arab, Turk, and Persian Bilingual Societies in Northeastern Iran

Abstract This study investigates borrowability of basic vocabularies such as kinship terms, body parts, and natural weather terms in nine bilingual villages Northeastern Iran. The surveyed serve a rich area for linguistic societal change. Speakers these speak at least one or more languages including Turkish, Turkmen (Turkic), Balochi (Indo-Iranian), Arabic (Semitic). These are widely spoken the Gulf countries Iraq, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, Afghanistan, other neighboring regions. Therefore, it can be benchmark further similar studies. corpus is extracted from database Iran Language Atlas (ILA) which include questionnaire data interviews different genders, ages, educational backgrounds. results show deep lexical changes speech communities.