Notes on Iranian Loanwords in Khorasani Persian
Subject Areas : Linguistics,dialectology,folklore,literatureKeywords: Persian, Khorasan, Borrowing, language contact, loanword,
Abstract :
Khorasani Persian is a variety of Persian spoken in the Iranian province of Khorasan, Tajikistan, and northern Afghanistan. These are remnants of Dari Persian which formed and developed at the beginning of the Islamic period in the great Khorasan area. Some words in Khorasani Persian cannot be considered Persian-origin words historically point of view, because of their Linguistic features they are loanwords from other Iranian languages spoken in Khorasan before the domination of Dari Persian in this area. After an introduction to the formation and spread of Dari Persian in Khorasan, the languages were spoken in the area before the spread of Persian such as Parthian, Sogdian, and other unknown Iranian languages. Some notes on the possible origin of the loanwords, this paper aims to examine some Iranian loanwords in Khorasani Persian and their linguistic features, in order to demonstrate which Iranian language may be the origin of the loanwords.
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