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The Mazandarani Dialect of Kalijān Rostāq

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2022

Habib Borjian
Habib Borjian*
Affiliation:
Ehsan Yarshater Center for Iranian Studies, Columbia University
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Abstract

Located in the Caspian forest south of the capital city of Sāri in Mazandaran, the rural district of Kalijān Rostāq is home to a number of close-knit villages which share a local Mazandarani dialect. The vernacular offers some authentic features in phonology, morphology, and lexis that are otherwise lost in the urban variety spoken in Sāri due to contact with Persian. In an attempt to elucidate on the loosely-known aspects of the Mazandarani language, this study offers a sketch grammar of the dialect of Kalijān Rostāq with a view to typological features. The glossary that follows includes many Caspian cultural items that are already moribund in the language.

Keywords

Iranian LanguagesCaspian LanguagesMazandaraniPhonologyMorphosyntaxLexisLexicographyThinning LanguagesLexical Obsolescence
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Regular Articles
Information
Iranian Studies , Volume 52 , Issue 3-4: Special Section: Commercial, Confessional, and Military Encounters in Ottoman-Iranian Borderlands in the Early Modern Period , July 2019 , pp. 551 - 573
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Copyright © Association For Iranian Studies, Inc 2019

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Footnotes

The author would like to thank the anonymous reviewers of this article as well as Maryam Borjian for their invaluable comments and insights.

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