Sangsari language
| Sangsari | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Semnan & Mazandaran & Golestan & Markazi provinces of Iran. |
| Region | Elburz |
Native speakers | 36,000 (2006)[1] |
| none | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | sgr |
| ELP | Sangisari |
Sangsari or Sangisari is an Iranian language spoken in the Semnan province of Iran mainly in the Sangsar (Mahdi Shehr) town and in a several surrounding villages. Sangsari is included in the Semnani group of Northwest Iranian languages that also includes Lasgerdi, Semnani, and Sorkhei.[2] There are around 36,000 Sangsari speakers.[3]
Phonology
The vowels of Sangsari are /a, a:, e, e:, i, o, ö, u, u:/. The consonants are the same as in Persian.[4]
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.[5]
| 1 sg | 2 sg | 3 sg masc. | 3 sg fem. | 1 pl | 2 pl | 3 pl | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| dir. | a | tö | nö | nā | ham | xā | anun |
| obl. | ma | ta | ne | nī | ham | xā | anun |
Notes
- ^ Ethnologue listing for Sangisari
- ^ Ethnologue listing of Semnani languages
- ^ Ethnologue listing for Sangisari
- ^ Lecoq, pg. 309.
- ^ 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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