Khansari | |
Nativename: | Khusaari |
States: | Iran |
Date: | 2000 |
Ref: | e18 |
Familycolor: | Indo-European |
Fam2: | Indo-Iranian |
Fam3: | Iranian |
Fam4: | Western |
Fam5: | Northwestern II |
Fam6: | Central Iranian Languages |
Fam7: | Northwestern |
Iso3: | kfm |
Glotto: | khun1255 |
Glottorefname: | Khunsaric |
Khunsari dialect (Persian: گویش خوانساری) is a Central dialect within the Northwestern Iranian languages, spoken in Khansar, a town in the west of Isfahan Province of Iran. Some of the oldest isoglosses include the development of Aryan palatals to fricatives: OIr. *dz > z: “big”, “small”, “yesterday”, - “know”, “son-in-law” (but “ugly” < SW *a-dushta-, cf. NPers. < NW *a-zushta- “unloved”); *tsw > sp:, “dog” (< Median -), “white”, “louse”.