the changing of round and back vowel /u/ to unround and front vowel [i] occurs in lori dialects as well as some other persian dialects. this vowel change includes both unrounding and fronting. this paper aimed at coming up with an inclusive ranking of constraints to explain occurrence and nonoccurrence of this vowel change in various phonological environments in silahkori dialect within optimal...

the overall objective of this study is to investigate the iranian students' attitudes toward the use of euphemism in persian by means of delphi method regarding biological, socio-cultural and educational variables including: gender, native language, place of birth and academic major. we begin with some definitions and examples of different types of euphemism. data elicitation procedure was thro...

quran quds is a valuable text of persian language. in addition to religious benefits, this translation of quran has many linguistic advantages. some of the words of this book are old words which are rarely used in other texts. others are certainly dialectical and are not used in other texts. this article tries to exemplify some of these words which are common get in the dialects of south khoras...

southern jabālbārez,located in anbarābādof kerman, has a number of dialects which are different from each other andcannot be considered as varieties of a single dialect. mohammadi dialect belongs tomohammdi tribe living in this area. there are morphological and syntactic differences between mohammadi and rūdbāri, the main dialect of southern cities of kerman.this makes the mutual understanding ...

the existence of passive makers in kurdish language, similar to that of ancient iranian languages can be very helpful in linguistic studies, language change and finding the nature of passive structures in modern iranian languages such as persian. the writers of this article have found a passive maker in kurdish language and its dialects such as sorani, ardalani, kalhori, ilami and horami that l...

translation includes delicate points that if being ignored, it will damage the text and its meaning. one of these main points is the social dialect which should be considered in translation, just like geographical dialects. the social dialects that sometimes create the main body of a story introduce characters and contain important information concerning the speakers. the following article is c...

The Algerian Arabic dialects are under-resourced languages, which lack both corpora and Natural Language Processing (NLP) tools, although they are increasingly used in written form, especially on social media and forums. We aim through this paper, and for the first time, to build parallel corpora for Algerian dialects, because our ultimate purpose is to achieve a Machine Translation (MT) for Mo...