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 study is an attempt to draw a dialect boundary between the Banehi and Mukriyani dialects, which was carried out using library resources and collecting data through questionnaires distributed among 80 speakers . The characteristics include the conversion of the voiceless pharyngeal [ħ] to the voiced pharyngeal [ʔ], the conversion of the short-closed anterior vowel [i] to the long vowel [i:], the deletion of the alveolar [d] and its replacement with the semivowel [y], the conversion of the vowel [i] to the open vowel [æ], the conversion of the initial syllable [yu] to [we], the change of the semivowel [y] to the vowel [e], the change of the vowel [u] to the semivowel [w], the conversion of the initial syllable [ʔʊs] to [wæs], the insertion of the inflectional affix [-ə] into the nominal ending and the correspondence of the personal pronoun and numerals with Standard Kurdish. The studies revealed that the villages near the city of Baneh speak the Banehi dialect, but the language variety of the more distant villages can be considered a combination of Banehi and Mukriyani. The speakers of the villages adjacent to Sardasht also speak Mukriyani, therefore, the Mukriyani - Banehi dialect boundary was determined.
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