Sangsari language

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Small Text456764654'Bold text'File:Bold text[[File:[[File:]]]]'] 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. There are around 36,000 Sangsari speakers.

Phonology

The vowels of Sangsari are /a, a:, e, e:, i, o, ö, u, u:/. The consonants are the same as in Persian.

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.

	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

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.