Basseri dialect ( Persian: گویش باصری) is a Persian or Southwestern Fars dialect spoken in

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by the Basseri people. It is part of the Southwestern Iranian branch of the Indo-Iranian group of

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. Basseri dialect consists of many exclusive Persian words with Old and

Middle Persian Middle Persian, also known by its endonym Pārsīk or Pārsīg ( Inscriptional Pahlavi script: , Manichaean script: , Avestan script: ) in its later form, is a Western Middle Iranian language which became the literary language of the Sasania ...

roots and less

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s, which is a consequence of living in the mountains, nomadism and less connection with urban Persians.

Phonology

Vowels

Basseri dialect has 6

vowel A vowel is a speech sound pronounced without any stricture in the vocal tract, forming the nucleus of a syllable. Vowels are one of the two principal classes of speech sounds, the other being the consonant. Vowels vary in quality, in loudness a ...

s including /æ/ , /ɒ/ , /o/ , /e/ , /i/ , and /u:/; and also 4

diphthong A diphthong ( ), also known as a gliding vowel or a vowel glide, is a combination of two adjacent vowel sounds within the same syllable. Technically, a diphthong is a vowel with two different targets: that is, the tongue (and/or other parts of ...

s including /æi/ , /ey/ ,/ow/ , and /oy/.

Consonants

Basseri Persian has 21

consonant In articulatory phonetics, a consonant is a speech sound that is articulated with complete or partial closure of the vocal tract, except for the h sound, which is pronounced without any stricture in the vocal tract. Examples are and pronou ...

s, in contrast with Iranian Persian with 23 consonants. In this dialect, is merged into and is merged into .

Distribution

Basseri dialect is spoken among the Basseries in central

. Counties like Abadeh, Eqlid, Pasargad, Jahrom, Marvdasht, Shiraz, Khorrambid, Larestan, and

Sarvestan Sarvestan () is a city in the Central District of Sarvestan County, Fars province, Iran, serving as capital of both the county and the district. The city is southeast of Shiraz, the capital of Fars province. Many tropical and sub-trop ...

are among the traditional living range of the Basseri.

Similarities with English

Some words in Basseri dialect are similar to English words.The Basseri tribe:from Tornas to Lahbaz.Gholamreza Tavakkoli.2000.Tehran

References

External links

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www.baserionline.ir

Basseri proverbs
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