Davani dialect

Kuhmareyi
Southwestern Fars
Native to	Iran
Native speakers	100,000 (2012)
Language family	Indo-European Indo-Iranian Iranian Western Iranian Southwestern Persid Kuhmareyi
Language codes
ISO 639-3
Glottolog	sout2645

Kuhmareyi is one of the languages of southwestern Fars. It is a cluster of disparate dialects; 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 had an estimated 1,000 speakers in 2004.

The transcription used here is only an approximation.

short: â, a, e, i, o, u
long: â:, ā, ē, ī, ō, ū

Davani is ergative in past transitive constructions. For example (Persian transliterations are in UniPers):

English: Hasan saw Ali in the garden.
Persian: Hasan,      Ali-râ tuye bâq did.
Davani:  hasan-eš   ali-a   tu    bâγ di.

Infinitive markers include -san, -tan, -dan, -ðan.

The suffix -aku makes nouns definite. For example:

bard "stone" → bard-aku "the stone"

The plural is marked by the suffix -gal. -u is exceptionally used for "man". For example:

sēv "apple" → sēv-gal "apples"
merd "man" → merd-u "men"

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