Koroshi (Koroshi: )(Balochi: کوروٚشی), is a
Balochi dialect. The speakers of Koroshi live in scattered pockets in Southern
Iran
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ian
Fars province. The number of speakers was estimated to be 1000 in 2006. According to
Ethnologue the dialect has 180 speakers within 40 to 50 families.
Entirely isolated from the main body of the Baloch habitat, Koroshi distinguishes itself in grammar and lexicon among Balochi varieties.
[Borjian, H. “The Blochi Dialect of the Korosh,” Acta Orientalia Academiae Scientiarum Hung. Volume 67 (4), 453–465 (2014) DOI: 10.1556/AOrient.67.2014.4.4]
Phonology
The transcription used here is only an approximation:
Vowels
*short: â, a, e, i, o, u
*long: â:, ā, ē, ī, ō, ū
Consonants
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voiced dental fricative
The voiced dental fricative is a consonant sound used in some spoken languages. It is familiar to English-speakers as the ''th'' sound in ''father''. Its symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet is eth, or and was taken from the Old Engl ...
: ð, like in 'sað' (hundred).
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voiced velar fricative
The voiced velar fricative is a type of consonantal sound that is used in various spoken languages. It is not found in Modern English but existed in Old English. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is , ...
: ɣ, like in 'maɣz' (copula).
*
alveolar trill
The voiced alveolar trill is a type of consonantal sound used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents dental, alveolar, and postalveolar trills is , and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is ...
: like in 'arra' (saw, the hand tool).
*palatal: 'g' and 'k', like in 'heykal' (body) and 'merzeng' (eyelash).
Grammar
Verbs
*Infinitive markers: -ag ('g' is palatal here).
Nouns
*The suffixes "-yok" and "-â" make nouns definite. Examples:
golâbi (pear) → golâbi-yok (the pear)
bâmard (man) → bâmard-â (the man)
*The indefinite marker is "i". Example:
čok (child) → čokk-i (a child)
*The plural is marked by the suffixes "-gal" and "obâr" . Examples:
mardin (man) → mardin-gal (men)
sib (apple) → sib-obâr (apples)
*Adjectives are placed before nouns. Examples:
siyâhayn angur (black grape)
qašanguveyn pirâhâm (beautiful shirt)
Vocabulary
Example sentences
See also
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Dialects of Fars
Dialects of Pars ''(Persia)'' are a group of southwestern and northwestern Persian dialects spoken in the central Pars province. The southwestern dialects can be divided into three families of dialects according to geographical distribution and lo ...
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Northwestern Iranian languages
The Western Iranic languages are a branch of the Iranic languages, attested from the time of Old Persian (6th century BC) and Median.
Languages
The traditional Northwestern branch is a convention for non-Southwestern languages, rather than a g ...
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Iranian languages
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The Iranian languages are groupe ...
References
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Fars Province
Languages of Iran
Northwestern Iranian languages
Endangered Iranian languages