Sorkhei language

Sorkhei
Region	Iran
Native speakers	10,000 (2006 census)[1]
Language family	Indo-European Indo-Iranian Iranian Western Iranian Semnani Sorkhei
Dialects	Aftari
Language codes
ISO 639-3	sqo
Glottolog	sork1239[2]

Sorkhei is a Western Iranian language. It is spoken in village of Sorkheh in Semnan Province in northwestern Iran.^[3]

Trivia

During the Iran Nuclear Negotiations, urgent telephone conversations between Iranian President Hassan Rouhani and his brother, who was traveling with the negotiating team, were conducted in Sorkhei. This was done to eliminate or reduce comprehensibility of the conversation by intelligence organizations in the event of a phone tap.^[4]

Notes

1. Sorkhei at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
2. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Sorkhei". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
3. Lecoq, pg. 297
4. http://www.tabnak.ir/fa/news/521419/%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%A7%DB%8C%D8%AA-%D8%B9%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%82%DA%86%DB%8C-%D8%A7%D8%B2-%DA%AF%D9%81%D8%AA-%D9%88-%DA%AF%D9%88%DB%8C-%D8%A8%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AF%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%86-%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%AD%D8%A7%D9%86%DB%8C-%D8%A8%D9%87-%DA%AF%D9%88%DB%8C%D8%B4-%D8%B3%D8%B1%D8%AE%D9%87-%D8%A7%DB%8C-%D9%85%D8%AB%D9%84%D8%AB-%D8%AC%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%86-%D8%A8%D8%B1%D8%A7%DB%8C-%D9%85%D8%AC%D9%84%D8%B3-%D8%AE%D8%A8%D8%B1%DA%AF%D8%A7%D9%86-%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AA%D9%82%D8%A7%D8%AF-%DA%A9%DB%8C%D9%87%D8%A7%D9%86-%D8%A7%D8%B2-%D8%AA%D8%B9%D8%B7%DB%8C%D9%84%DB%8C-%D9%85%D8%AC%D9%84%D8%B3-%D8%A8%D8%AF%D9%87%DA%A9%D8%A7%D8%B1-%D9%85%DB%8C%D9%84%DB%8C%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AF%DB%8C-%D8%B7%D9%84%D8%A8%DA%A9%D8%A7%D8%B1-%D8%B4%D8%AF

Bibliography

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.

Habib Borjian. 2008. “The Komisenian Dialect of Aftar,” Archiv Orientální 76: 379-416.