Semnani language

Semnani
Region Iran
Ethnicity Semnani
Native speakers
 60,000 (2007)[1]
Dialects
  • ? Biyabanaki
Language codes
ISO 639-3 smy
Glottolog semn1249[2]

Semnani (Semnani: Pe Semani zefön) is one of the local languages of the Semnan Province of Iran. The language belongs to the Northwestern Branch of the Western Iranian languages, and it is a descendent of the now extinct Parthian language. The Semnani language is often labeled as a dialect of Persian.[3]

Phonology

Consonants

Labial Dental Alveolar Postalveolar Palatal Velar Uvular Glottal
Nasal mn(ŋ)
Plosive p bt dk ɡqʔ
Affricate tʃ dʒ
Fricative f vθs zʃ ʒx ɣh
Tap ɾ
Trill (r)
Approximant ljw

(Where symbols appear in pairs, the one to the right represents a voiced consonant. Allophones are in parentheses.)

Notes

  1. ↑ Semnani at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Semnani". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  3. ↑ Lecoq, pg. 297

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.


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