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Volume 15:10 October 2015
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The Study of Phonological Processes in
Lori Dialect of Kohgilouyeh: Conversion, Metathesis and Deletion

Seyyed Farid Khalifelu, Assistant Professor
Amirali Khoshkhoonejad, Ph.D. Student
Sistan & Baluchestan University, Iran


Abstract

Kohgilouyeh dialect is one of the dialects of Persian language and has many similarities and some differences with standard Persian. The present study intends to investigate, describe and elucidate the phonological processes in Lori dialect of Kohgilouyeh. Conversion, metathesis and deletion are processes which have been assessed in this article. These processes are only investigated at the phonological level and do not make semantic shifts. The achieved findings indicate that they are mostly the consequence of people’s tendency to have more facility and fluency in using language.

Keywords: Phonological process, deletion, metathesis, conversion, Lori Dialect of Kohgilouyeh.

Introduction

Lori (Lori) is an Indo-Iranian language cluster with over four million speakers. It is a Southwestern Iranian language spoken mainly by the Lori and Bakhtiari peoples of the Iranian provinces of Lorestan, Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari, Fars province (especially Lamerd), Khuzestan, Esfahan province and Kohgilouyeh and Boyer-Ahmad (Anonby, 2003). Lori dialect is a descendant of a variant of Middle Persian and is lexically similar to modern Persian (ibid). According to the linguist Don Stilo (2001) Persian, Lori-Ba?tiari and others, are derived directly from Old Persian through Middle Persian/Pahlavi.

The special character of the Lori language suggests that its spreading area was Iranicized from Persia and not from Media (Yar-Shater, 1982). Lori also represents a language continuum between Persian language and Kurdish language varieties, and is itself composed of three distinct languages: Loristani, Bakhtiari and Southern Lori.[4] According to John Limbert, "Lori and Bakhtiari are much more closely related to Persian, than Kurdish" (Houtsma, M. T. & E.J. Brill's, 1987). Traditionally, Lori has been categorized as a single language. Some scholars have stated that Lori is only a highly accented or (lahjeh) form of Persian. On the other hand, some researchers are supporting the division of the Lori continuum into more than one language (Anonby, 2003).


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Seyyed Farid Khalifelu
Assistant Professor in General Linguistics
Sistan & Baluchestan University, Iran

Amirali Khoshkhoonejad
Ph.D. Student in General Linguistics
Sistan & Baluchestan University, Iran
Ali.z.khooshkhoonjad@gmail.com

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