Koroshi (Koroshi: )(Balochi: کوروٚشی), is a
Balochi Balochi, sometimes spelt in various other ways, may refer to:
* Balochi language, a language of Iran, Pakistan and Afghanistan
* an adjective for something related to the Baloch people, an ethnic group of Iran, Pakistan and Afghanistan
* an adjecti ...
dialect. The speakers of Koroshi live in scattered pockets in Southern
Iranian
Fars province. The number of speakers was estimated to be 1000 in 2006. According to
Ethnologue
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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
*
voiced dental fricative: ð, like in 'sað' (hundred).
*
voiced velar fricative: ɣ, like in 'maɣz' (copula).
*
alveolar trill: 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
*
Dialects of Fars
*
Northwestern Iranian languages
*
Iranian languages
References
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Fars Province
Languages of Iran
Northwestern Iranian languages
Endangered Iranian languages