The Abduyi dialect (Kurdish: عبدویی, UniPers: Abduyi) is a Northwestern Iranian language spoken in the village of Abdui, which can be reached from Kazerun city in Southern Iran via the old Shiraz-Kazerun road after 36 kilometers. The number of households in the village was approximately 120 in 2004. Most researchers identify the dialect as Kurdish.
Phonology
The transcription used here is an approximation.
Vowels
short: â, a, e, i, o, u
long: â:, ā, ē, ī, ō, ū
Consonants
- voiced dental fricative: ð, a sound near to English voiced "th", generally after vowels, like in 'taðuk' (cockroach).
- palatal stops: front 'g' and 'k', like in 'kačče' (chin) and girib (cry).
- voiced velar fricative: γ, like in 'jeγarek' (hailstone).
- alveolar trill: like in 'borre' (flail).
Grammar
Verbs
Infinitive markers: -san, -tan, -dan.
Nouns
Stresses on different vowels make nouns definite or indefinite. Example:
že (woman), tuhu (house).
Definite: žení (the woman), tevedí (the house).
Indefinite: žéni (a woman), tevédi (a house).
The plural is marked by the suffixes: -gal, -al, -u and -yu. Examples:
sib (apple) → sib-yu (apples)
morb (hen) → morb-u (hens)
âdam (person) → âdam-gal (persons)
Vocabulary
Example sentences
See also
- Dialects of Fars
- Persian dialects and varieties
- Northwestern Iranian languages
- Iranian languages
References
Further reading
- Mahamedi, H., 1979. On the verbal system in three Iranian dialects of Fârs, in Studia Iranica, VIII, 2, 277–297.
