Semnani | |
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Region | Iran |
Native speakers
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60,000 (2007) |
Dialects |
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 |
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Glottolog | semn1249 |
Semnani (Semnani: fa Semani zefön) is one of the local languages of the Semnan Province of Iran. The language belongs to the Northwestern Branch of the Western Iranian languages, and it is a descendent of the now extinct Parthian language. The Semnani language is often mistakenly labeled as a "dialect".
(Where symbols appear in pairs, the one to the right represents a voiced consonant. Allophones are in parentheses.)
Pierre Lecoq. 1989. "Les dialectes caspiens et les dialectes du nord-ouest de l'Iran," Compendium Linguarum Iranicarum. Ed. Rüdiger Schmitt. Wiesbaden: Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag. Pages 296-314.