Koroshi (Koroshi: کوروشی, Balochi: کوروٚشی) is a
Balochi dialect. The speakers of Koroshi live in scattered pockets in Southern
Iran
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ian
Fars province
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Pars province has an area of 122,400 km2 and is located in Iran's southwest, i ...
. 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.
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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
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: ð, like in 'sað' (hundred).
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voiced velar fricative
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: ɣ, like in 'maɣz' (copula).
*
alveolar trill
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: 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
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Northwestern Iranian languages
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Languages
The traditional Northwestern branch is a convention for non-Southweste ...
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Iranian languages
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The Iranian langu ...
References
Further reading
* Nourzaei, M., Jahani, C., Anonby, E., and Ahangar, A. A. (2015).
Koroshi. A Corpus-based Grammatical Description'. Uppsala: Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis. Studia Iranica Upsaliensia 13. .
{{Iranian languages
Balochi language
Fars province
Languages of Iran
Northwestern Iranian languages
Endangered Iranian languages