Document Type : Research Paper
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1 Department of Linguistics, Faculty of Literature and Humanity Sciences, University of Ilam
2 Master in Linguistics, University of Ilam
3 Department of Linguistics, Faculty of Literature and Humanities, Ilam University
Abstract
The present research is an attempt to delineate the dialectal boundary between the Banehi and Mukriyani varieties of the Kurdish language. Data collection phase conducted through the application field linguistics methods; selfprepared questionnaires distributed among to 80 native speakers of both verities in equal numbers (40 men and 40 women aged 55 to 72 years) inhabited in rural areas across Baneh and Sardasht Counties. The very early stage of data analysis initiated with phonetic transcription of collected data to address both similarities and differencess among. Finally the Isogloss boundary determined having view to some specific features– such as the deletion of the vowel /d/ in verbs and its transformation into the vowel /ʔ/, and also the suffix -wɑnə in verbs, which makes some spoken form of Kurdish in Baneh more similar to the standard Kurdish language. Furthermore, in the Mukriyani dialect (Sardasht areas), benefited more from free word order especially in case of subject and object position, whereas Banehi dialect doesn't. Therefore, considering the phonetic, lexical, and syntactic differences in the two dialects of the investigated rural areas, the Isogloss boundary can be delineated between these two districts among the villages of Kukhan, Najneh, and Manijalan.
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