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Koroshi dialect
Found in: Languages of Iran Northwestern Iranian languages Endangered Iranian languages
The Koroshi dialect , is a Northwestern Iranian language. The speakers of Koroshi live in scattered pockets in Southern Iranian Fars province. The number of speakers was roughly estimated to be 1000 in 2006.
Phonology
The transcription used here is only a approximation:
Vowels
short: a, a, e, i, o, u*long: a:, a, e, i, o, u
Consonants
fricative: d, like in, 'sad' (hundred).
voiced velar fricative: , like in 'maz' (copula).
alveolar trill: like in 'arra' .
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 "-a" make nouns definite. Examples:golabi (pear) golabi-yok (the pear)bamard (man) bamard-a (the man)
The indefinite marker is "i". Example:cok (child) cokk-i (a child)
The plural is marked by the suffixes "-gal" and "obar" . Examples:mardin (man) mardin-gal (men)sib (apple) sib-obar (apples)
Adjectives are placed before nouns. Examples:siyahayn angur (black grape)qasanguveyn piraham (beautiful shirt)
See also
Dialects of Fars
Northwestern Iranian languages
Iranian languages
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