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Sangsari language

Sangsari language

Semnani language spoken in northern Iran

Sangsari or Sangisari is an Iranian language spoken mainly in the Semnan and Tehran provinces of Iran, especially in the Sangesar (Mahdi Shehr) town and in several surrounding villages. Sangsari is included in the Semnani group of Northwestern Iranian languages that also includes Lasgerdi, Semnani, and Sorkhei.[2] There are around 50,000 Sangsari speakers.[3]

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Glottolog classifies Sangsari under "Komisenian" languages of Northwestern Iranian branch of Iranian language family.[4] This designation is also adopted by Wiktionary.[5]

Phonology

The vowels of Sangsari are /a, aː, e, eː, i, o, ö, u, uː/. The consonants are the same as in Persian.[6]

Pronouns

Sangseri distinguishes two numbers in pronouns—singular and plural—and marks two cases in the singular—the direct (nominative) and the oblique (other cases). Masculine and feminine forms are distinct in the singular third person pronouns.[7]

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Notes

  1. [1]
    Sangsari at Ethnologue (26th ed., 2023) Closed access icon
  2. [2]
    Ethnologue listing of Semnani languages
  3. [3]
    Ethnologue listing for Sangisari
  4. [4]
    "Glottolog 4.4 - Komisenian".
  5. [5]
    "Category:Komisenian languages - Wiktionary".
  6. [6]
    Lecoq, pg. 309.
  7. [7]
    Lecoq, pg. 309.

References

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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