KHORASANI TURKISH LANGUAGE

'Khorasani Turkish' (تركي خراساني / Xorasan Türkçeəsı) is variety of speech belonging to the Turkic language family. It is spoken in northern Khorasan in Iran. Khorasani Turkish speakers also speak the Persian language.^[1]

Contents

Geographic Distribution

Dialects

Classification and Related Languages

Sounds

Consonants

Vowels

Morphology

Nouns

Pluralization

Case

Possession

Pronouns

Verbs

Examples

References

External links

Geographic Distribution

Khorasani Turkish is spoken in the Iranian provinces of North Khorasan, near Bojnourd, and Razavi Khorasan, near Sabzevar, Quchan, and Mashhad. If the Oghuz dialect of Uzbek is considered a dialect of Khorasani Turkish, its range extends into southern Uzbekistan.

Dialects

Khorasani Turkish is split into North, South, and West dialects. The northern dialect is spoken in North Khorasan near Quchan; the southern in Soltanabad near Sabzevar; the western around Bojnourd.

Classification and Related Languages

Khorasani Turkish belongs to the Oghuz group of Turkic languages, which also includes Turkish, Azerbaijani, Gagauz, Turkmen, and Salar, as well as the Oghuz dialect spoken in Uzbekistan. Khorasani Turkish is most closely related to Oghuz Uzbek and Turkmen and is close to the Azerbaijani dialects spoken in Iran. As it is similar to other languages in the region, its status as a language or dialect is debated.

Sounds

Consonants

'Consonant phonemes'

	Labial		Alveolar		Palatal		Velar		Uvular		Glottal
Plosive
Affricate
Fricative
Nasal
Flap/Tap
Lateral
Approximant

Vowels

Morphology

Nouns

Pluralization

Pluralization is marked on nouns with the suffix ''-lAr'', which has the two forms ''-lar'' and ''-lær'', depending on vowel harmony.

Case

Nouns in Khorasani Turkish take a number of case endings that change based on vowel harmony and whether they follow a vowel or a consonant:

Case	After Vowels	After Consonants
Nominative	No Ending
Genitive	niŋ/nin	iŋ/in
Dative	ya/yæ	a/æ
Accusative	ni/n	i/
Locative	da/dæ
Ablative	dan/dæn
Instrumental	nan/næn

Possession

Possession is marked with a suffix on the possessed noun.

	Singular	Plural
First Person	(I)m	(I)mIz
Second Person	(I)ŋ	(I)ŋIz
Third Person	(s)I	lArI

Pronouns

Khorasani Turkish has six personal pronouns. Occasionally, personal pronouns take different case endings from regular nouns.

	Singular	Plural
First Person	mæn	bz
Second Person	sæn	siz
Third Person	o	olar

Verbs

Verbs are declined for tense, aspect, mood, person, and number. The infinitive form of the verb ends in ''-max''.

Examples

;''Excerpt from Tulu (1989) p. 90''

Translation	IPA
Thus, there was a padishah named Ziyad.
Almighty God had given him no son.
There he spoke to his vizier: "O Vizier, I have no son. What shall I do about it?"
The vizier said: "Ruler of the whole world, what will you do with this possession?"

References

Chorasantürkische Materialien aus Kalāt bei Esfarāyen, Tulu, Sultan, , , Klaus Schwarz Verlag, 1989, ISBN 3-922968-88-0
Chorasantürkisch: Wörterlisten, Kurzgrammatiken, Indices, Doerfer, Gerhard, , , Harrassowitz, 1993, ISBN 3-447-03320-7

External links

★ Ethnologue report for Khorasani Turkish