Southwestern Fars dialects

Southwestern Fars dialects, or simply Fars dialects, are a cluster of disparate dialects of Fars. The one illustrated here is the Davani dialect (Davani: devani; Persian: دوانی, transliteration: Davāni) of the village of Davan, 12 kilometers north of Kazerun city in southern Iran. Davani is listed as a Persid language distinct from other Southwestern Fars dialects in Windfuhr (2012). Details of the Fars dialects are found in Windfuhr (1999).

Davani had an estimated 1,000 speakers in 2004.

Dialects

Lecoq (1989: 341) lists the following dialects, named after the towns or regions in which they are spoken:

Buringuni, Māsarmi, Somghuni, Pāpuni, Ardakāni, Kalāti, Xullāri, Kondāzi, Davāni.

To these Glottolog adds Judeo-Shirazi.

Ethnologue has a longer list, with some of the names likely synonyms for the ones above:

Basseri, Judeo-Shirazi (Old Shirazi), Delvari, Davani, Ahrami, Bandar Rig, Bardesuni (Bardestāni), Bēbehōni (Behbahāni), Bordekhuni, Dashtesuni (Dashtestāni), Dashtini, Dashtiyāti (Dashti), Gāvbandi, Genāve*i, Heshnizi, Jami, Kangāni, Khā*izi, Khenesiri, Khormuji, Qanavāti, Tangesiri.

(where * may be y, ʼ or zero).

Phonology

The transcription used here is only an approximation.

Grammar

Vocabulary

Example sentences

See also

• Achomi language
• Dialects of Fars
• Persian dialects and varieties
• Southwestern Iranian languages
• Iranian languages

References

Further reading

• Morgenstierne, G., 1960. Stray notes on Persian dialects, II, Fârs Dialects-Davâni. Norsk Tidsskrift for Sprogvidenskap, XIX, 123–129.
• Hasamzada-Haqiqi, C., 1970. Guyeše Davâni^{[permanent dead link]} (Davani Dialect), in Proceedings of the First Congress of Iranian Studies. Tehran University, 77–98.
• Mahamedi, H., 1979. On the verbal system in three Iranian dialects of Fârs, in Studia Iranica, VIII, 2, 277–297.
• Salami, A., 1381 AP / 2002 AD. Farhange guyeše Davâni (The Dictionary of Davani dialect). The academy of Persian language and literature. Archived 2007-06-22 at the Wayback Machine ISBN 964-7531-03-6 (in Persian).
• Pierre Lecoq. 1989. Les dialectes du sud-ouest de l'Iran. In Rüdiger Schmitt (ed.), Compendium Linguarum Iranicarum, 341–349. Wiesbaden: Dr. Ludwig Reichert. In French.

External links

• Encyclopædia Iranica article on Davani
• Davani sayings^{[permanent dead link]}