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Biyabunaki language

Semnani
Region Iran
Native speakers
60,000 (2007)
Dialects
  • ? Biyabanaki
Language codes
ISO 639-3
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.



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