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Various Iranian languages are discussed in this volume, including Hawrami and Kermanji, two of the major dialects of Kurdish, Medival, Classical and Modern Persian, Balochi, Taleshi and Pamir. With the exception of Persian, other Iranian languages had not received much attention in the past.
the field, offers an introductory overview of Iranian dialectology and typology, fol-lowed by detailed discussions of the principal languages of Old, Middle, and New and Modern Iranian. The language chapters follow the same pattern and sequence of topics, taking the reader through the significant features not only of phonology
The Oxford Handbook of Persian Linguistics is a comprehensive volume that offers a detailed overview of the field of Persian linguistics, discusses its development, and captures critical accounts of the cutting edge research within the major.
19 sie 2013 · Various Iranian languages are discussed in this volume, including Hawrami and Kermanji, two of the major dialects of Kurdish, Medival, Classical and Modern Persian, Balochi, Taleshi and Pamir. With the exception of Persian, other Iranian languages had not received much attention in the past.
Studies of linguistic contact between Iranian languages and particularly Turkic, Semitic, and other Indo-European languages, e.g. languages from the Indo-Aryan family, Armenian, and Tocharian, are therefore highly rewarding.
perspectives about the status of “languages” and “dialects” through a flexible multi- dimensional classification web; and the role of ongoing comparisons between language distribution assessments and hard linguistic data.
Iranian languages. In this work, the chief distinction that cuts across Iranian is between “Persian” and “Non-Persian” dialects (Geiger 1901:414). East and West are used as purely geographic labels: at one point, Balochi, generally classified in later work as a West Iranian language, is referred to as East Iranian (p. 414).
