Sorkhei language

Sorkhei
Region Iran
Native speakers
10,000 (2006 census)[1]
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

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.


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