Khunsari dialect () is a
Central dialect within the
Northwestern Iranian languages
The Western Iranian languages or Western Iranic languages are a branch of the Iranian languages, attested from the time of Old Persian (6th century BC) and Median.
Languages
The traditional Northwestern branch is a convention for non-Southweste ...
, spoken in
Khansar, a town in the west of
Isfahan province of
Iran
Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI) and also known as Persia, is a country in West Asia. It borders Iraq to the west, Turkey, Azerbaijan, and Armenia to the northwest, the Caspian Sea to the north, Turkmenistan to the nort ...
. Some of the oldest isoglosses include the development of Aryan palatals to fricatives: OIr. *dz > z: "big", "small", "yesterday", - "know", "son-in-law" (but "ugly" < SW *a-dushta-, cf. NPers. < NW *a-zushta- "unloved"); *tsw > sp: , "dog" (< Median -), "white", "louse".
References
Further reading
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External links
GEOGRAPHY OF THE MEDIAN DIALECTS OF ISFAHAN, Encyclopedia Iranica
Northwestern Iranian languages
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