Khunsari dialect ( fa, گویش خوانساری) is a
Central dialect within the
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 ...
, spoken in
Khansar, a town in the west of
Isfahan Province of
Iran
Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and also called Persia, is a country located in Western Asia. It is bordered by Iraq and Turkey to the west, by Azerbaijan and Armenia to the northwest, by the Caspian Sea and Turkm ...
. 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
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GEOGRAPHY OF THE MEDIAN DIALECTS OF ISFAHAN, Encyclopedia Iranica
Northwestern Iranian languages