Sorkhei is a
Western Iranian language
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 g ...
. It is spoken in village of
Sorkheh in
Semnan Province in northwestern Iran.
Trivia
During the
Iran-Iraq War, radio operators from
Sorkheh used the language as a form of
cryptography
Cryptography, or cryptology (from grc, , translit=kryptós "hidden, secret"; and ''graphein'', "to write", or ''-logia'', "study", respectively), is the practice and study of techniques for secure communication in the presence of adve ...
for
tactical communications
Tactical communications are military communications in which information of any kind, especially orders and military intelligence, are conveyed from one command, person, or place to another upon a battlefield, particularly during the conduct of ...
of the
Iranian Armed Forces.
During the
Iran nuclear negotiations, the language was used in conversations between Iranian President
Hassan Rouhani and
Hossein Fereydoun, his brother and
aide traveling with the negotiating team. This was done to eliminate or reduce comprehensibility of the conversation by any potential
eavesdroppers.
Tabnak (in Persian)
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Notes
Bibliography
* Pierre Lecoq. 1989. "Les dialectes caspiens et les dialectes du nord-ouest de l'Iran," ''Compendium Linguarum Iranicarum''. Ed. Rüdiger Schmitt. Wiesbaden: Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag. Pages 296-314.
* Habib Borjian. 2008. “The Komisenian Dialect of Aftar,” Archiv Orientální 76: 379-416.
Northwestern Iranian languages
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