The Alans, an Iranian-speaking people attested in the chronicles of ancient world from first century AD, played important role Caucasian region until Mongol invasion. They lived plains north mountain ridge, but after invasion and emergence Kabardian power region, they moved more towards high mountains began to live gorges Central Caucasus. But memory Alan persisted for long time deriving Alans ...

this research was conducted to reveal the differences between the intonation systems of persian and japanese languages and to be applied to the contrastive linguistics and language teaching fields. first,a description of the intonation system in the autosegmental-metrical phonology framework was chosen as reference for each language. based on these two descriptions, the intonations of the two l...

Contrastive  analysis  of  hypothesis  is  the  comparison  of  the linguistic system of two or more languages and it is based on the main difficulties in  learning  a  new  language  that  caused  by  interference  from  the  first  language. The present study intended to investigate the effect of contrastive analysis on Iranian intermediate EFL learners’ knowledge of L2 adjectives. The questi...

Two of the Western Iranian languages spoken in territory current Azerbaijan Republic, Caucasian Persian (Tat) and Northern Talyshi, belonging to southwestern northwestern branches languages, respectively, have many common phonetic grammatical features. These commonalities are due genetic relationship between them (indigenous heritage), as well language contacts interactions them, presumably dur...

background : many studies have been conducted in iran in order to investigate the status of social determinants of health (sdh) and their associations with health indicators. this study aimed to review the iranian studies conducted on sdh. methods : a systematic review of all iranian persian and english languages articles published between 2005 and 2014 on the sdh was conducted using the search...

In rural Tanzania, recent major influences happen between Kiswahili and English to ethnic languages rather than ethnic languages, which had been in contact for so long, influencing each other. In this work, I report the results of investigation of lexical changes in indigenous languages that aimed at examining how ethnic communities and their languages, namely Cushitic Iraqw, Nilotic Datooga, N...

With the spread of Islam among communities belonging to different languages and cultures, it has become essential for Muslims learn language Islamic sources. Some scholars, who were aware this situation, have tried close gap in field by producing works on grammar Arabic since first period their conversion Islam. One these is al-Avamilu'l-Mi'e, which was written ‘Abd al-Kâhir al-Jurjânî (d. 471/...