Koroshi dialect

Koroshi
کوروشی
Native to	Iran
Native speakers	unknown (undated figure of 160–200 = 40–50 families)[1]
Language family	Indo-European Indo-Iranian Iranian Western Iranian Northwestern II Balochi Koroshi
Official status
Regulated by	Academy of Persian Language and Literature
Language codes
ISO 639-3	ktl
Glottolog	koro1296[2]

Koroshi (Balochi: کوروشی), is a Balochi dialect.^[3][4] The speakers of Koroshi live in scattered pockets in Southern Iranian Fars province. The number of speakers was roughly estimated to be 1000 in 2006.^[5] According to Ethnologue the dialect has 180 speaker within 40 to 50 families.^[6]

Phonology

The transcription used here is only an approximation:

Vowels

• short: â, a, e, i, o, u
• long: â:, ā, ē, ī, ō, ū

Consonants

• fricative: ð, like in, 'sað' (hundred).
• voiced velar fricative: γ, like in 'maγz' (copula).
• alveolar trill: like in 'arra' (saw, the hand tool).
• palatal: 'g' and 'k', like in 'heykal' (body) and 'merzeng' (eyelash).

Grammar

Verbs

• Infinitive markers: -ag ('g' is palatal here).

Nouns

• The suffixes "-yok" and "-â" make nouns definite. Examples:

golâbi (pear) → golâbi-yok (the pear)
bâmard (man) → bâmard-â (the man)

• The indefinite marker is "i". Example:

čok (child) → čokk-i (a child)

• The plural is marked by the suffixes "-gal" and "obâr" . Examples:

mardin (man) → mardin-gal (men)
sib (apple) → sib-obâr (apples)

• Adjectives are placed before nouns. Examples:

siyâhayn angur (black grape)
qašanguveyn pirâhâm (beautiful shirt)

Vocabulary

English Koroshi Balochi Persian (Unipers) beautiful qašang sharr, soherâ zibâ, xoščehre blood hun hun xun bread nagan nagan, nân nân bring ârag ârag âvardan brother berâd barādar, brāt barâdar come akkag áhag, âmadan âmadan cry girrag griwag geristan dark târik tahár târik daughter jānek mind, jānek doxtar day roč roshe, roč ruz do kanag kanag kardan door dar gelo, dar,dawazag dar die merag mireg mordan donkey kar har xar egg heyx heyk toxme morq earth dogâr zemin, dagâr zamin eye čām čham, čam čašm father bovâ(y) pyt, abbâ pedar, bâbâ fear tors tors tars fiancé numzâð nāmzād,deshtaar nâmzad fine xoš, xâš hosh xoš finger pinja lenkwk, mordâneg angošt fire âs âč, âs âtaš, âzar fish mâhin mâhig mâhi food / eat xorâk/ varag warag, vereg qazâ, xorâk / xordan four čâr č(y)ār čahâr go ravag jwzzegh, ravag raftan god xoðâ hwdâ xodâ good xūb jawáin, šarr xub great čoqqor mastar bozorg, gonde, gat hand das dast dast

English Koroshi Balochi Persian (Unipers) head sar, kalla sar sar, kalle heart del dil, hatyr, zerd del, qalb horse asp asp asb, astar house log log, gis xâne language (Also Tongue) zebân zevân, zobân zabân laugh kannag khendeg, hendeg,kandag xandidan man mardin, bâmard merdin mard moon mā máh mâh mother doyi mât, mâs mâdar, mâmân mouth daf dap, daf dahân name num num nâm night šaf shaw, šap šab open vâz kanag pač kanag vâkardan, bâz kardan peace sōl ârâm âshti, ârâmeš, ârâmi, solh place jâ hend, jâ jâ read vânag wánag xândan say gašag gushag goftan, gap zadan scratch karânag kičaenag xârândan sister gâhâr, daða gwhâr xâhar small kassân, kam lekem, kassân kucak, kam, xord son bač pisar, phussag, bač pesar, pur, bacce tall bolan bwrz boland, bârez, derâz three sa se se water âf âf, âp âb, ow weave gâfag gwapag bâftan when kad ked key wind gâd gwáth bâd woman jan jan zan yesterday zi zí diruz, di

Example sentences

English	Koroshi	Balochi	Persian
What is this?	i či-yen?	ای چی اِن	این چیست؟
Where is Ali?	ali ko-yen?	علی کواِن، علی کجا اِن	علی کجاست؟
This horse is white.	i asp esbiyeð-en.	ای اسپیتیں اسپ اِن	.این اسب سفید است
They say he works ten hours a day.	maya šey-ant rōč-i dah sâat kâr makan-a.	آ گشنت روچی دہ سائت کار کنت	.میگویند روزی ده ساعت کار میکند
I have two small brothers and sisters.	do tâ kâkâ(berâd) vo gâhâr-e kassân assen-om.	?	.دو برادر و خواهر کوچک دارم
If you will go just once to their village, you won't forget the hospitality of its people.	aga faqat ya dafâ ba âšâni dâhâ rafayado âšâni mehmândâriyâ hič vaxt yâdo anaraft.	?	.اگر تنها یکبار به ده آنها رفته باشی، مهمان‌نوازی مردم آنجا را هرگز از یاد نخواهی برد
Who called me?	kayad manâ ganki jad?	کیا منا گوانک جت	چه کسی مرا صدا زد؟

See also

• Dialects of Fars
• Northwestern Iranian languages
• Iranian languages

References

1. Koroshi at Ethnologue (13th ed., 1996).
2. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Koroshi". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
3. Payne, J.R. (1987). Bernard Comrie, ed. The World's Major Languages. Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 514. ISBN 978-0-19-506511-4.
4. Ethnologue report for Southwestern Iranian languages
5. Salami, A., 1385 AP / 2006 AD. Ganjineye guyeššenâsiye Fârs (The treasury of the dialectology of Fars). Third Volume, The academy of Persian language and literature. ISBN 964-7531-54-0 (in Persian)
6. Ethnologue Languages of the world, Koroshi