The aim of the present paper is to study the status of the short vowels /i/ and /u/ in five selected Iranian Balochi dialects. These dialects are spoken in Sistan (SI), Saravan (SA), Khash (KH), Iranshahr (IR), and Chabahar (CH) regions located in province Sistan va Baluchestan in the southeast of Iran. This study investigates whether these two vowels have the same qualities as the short /i/ an...

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...

Introduction        A dialect is a variety of a language used by group of people whose lexicon, syntax, phonetics and phonology are different from those of other people. The existence of many geographical, economic and social barriers among the speakers of a language cause the emergence of many dialects. As such, each language has many dialects and accents and each dialect has many different ac...

tati dialect of northern khorasan is one of the oldest dialects of ancient iran which has structural differences with its other variations. sharing common words with the other tati dialects, especially those of azerbaijan and ghazvin, shows that tati dialect of northern khorasan, like others, is one of the dialects existing in pre-islamic era. this dialect is also one of those dialects in which...

introduction        a dialect is a variety of a language used by group of people whose lexicon, syntax, phonetics and phonology are different from those of other people. the existence of many geographical, economic and social barriers among the speakers of a language cause the emergence of many dialects. as such, each language has many dialects and accents and each dialect has many different ac...

This paper is an attempt to shed light on the effects of modernization, urbanization, monolingual educational system, and mass media as well as the process of globalization on dialect leveling among Persian dialects. In so doing, the first part of the paper elaborates on the relationship between globalization and sociolinguistics, and on the concept of standardization. Also, it discusses some ...

this article deals with a comparative analysis of phonological dissimilarities between two iranian dialects in the southern borders of the caspian sea, e.g. taleshi in gilan and kelardashti in mazandaran. the differences are classified and analyzed with an emphasis on the kelardasht’s rudbarak and talish’s alian dialects in two parts of vowel and consonant diversities.

the different constructions of [ah] which is an infinitive are prevalent in the dialect of the historical village of xanik and its neighboring villages. singular second person paradigm in present tense of [ah] infinitive in the dialect is a survivor of sanskrit and old persian languages. some constructions of this infinitive are widely used, because they are attributive verbs meaning is being a...

in recent decades, persian language dialects are also changing along with the language itself. so, recording the social characteristics of these dialects is of great importance. the results of these studies can be used in social and educational policies, language planning and comparative studies of dialectology. the writers of this article study the social characteristics of family and gender e...