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The Perside Language of Shiraz Jewry: A Historical-Comparative Phonology

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2022

Habib Borjian
Habib Borjian*
Affiliation:
Department of African, Middle Eastern, and South Asian Languages and Literatures (AMESALL), Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey
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Abstract

This study concerns the native language of Shirazi Jews, most of whom live in diasporic communities outside Iran. The language Judeo-Shirazi belongs to the Southwest Iranian group, as do most other native languages spoken in southern Iran. As such, Judeo-Shirazi shows general agreements with native rural varieties spoken in inland Fārs. There are, however, phonological features suggesting that Judeo-Shirazi is an insular survivor of the Medieval Shirazi language, from which a sizable literature has survived dating back to the fifteenth century.

Keywords

Southwest Iranian LanguagesFārs LanguagesHistorical-Comparative PhonologyConsonant ShiftInterdentalizationVowel Fronting
Type
Language contact in Iranian Languages
Information
Iranian Studies , Volume 53 , Issue 3-4: Commemorating Ehsan Yarshater Endangered Iranian Languages: Language Contact and Language Islands in Iran , August 2020 , pp. 403 - 415
Copyright
Copyright © Association For Iranian Studies, Inc 2020

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Footnotes

This was a part of the talk entitled “Judeo-Shirazi: Historical, Areal, and Cultural Associations” and was presented at the International Symposium on Endangered Iranian Languages (ISEIL 2018): “Language Islands and Language Contact in Iran,” Leibniz-Zentrum Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft (ZAS), Berlin, 19-20 October 2018.

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