Everything about Khorasani Turkic Language totally explained
Khorasani Turkic (تركي خراساني / Turki Khorasani), or
Kizilbash Turkic, is a language
variety in the
Turkic language family. It is spoken in northern
Khorasan in
Iran. Khorasani Turkic speakers also speak
Persian.
Geographic Distribution
Khorasani Turkic 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 Turkic, its range extends into southern Uzbekistan.
Dialects
Khorasani Turkic 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 Turkic belongs to the
Oghuz group of
Turkic languages, which also includes
Turkish,
Azerbaijani,
Gagauz,
Balkan Gagauz Turkish,
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. Even though it's linguistically between Azerbaijani and Turkmen, it isn't a dialect of either.
Sounds
Consonants
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 |
fter Vowels |
fter Consonants |
| Nominative | No Ending
|
| Genitive | niŋ/nin |
iŋ/in
|
| Dative | ya/yæ |
a/æ
|
| Accusative | ni/nɯ |
i/ɯ
|
| 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 |
bɯz
|
| 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. |
ɑl ɣəssa bir ziyæːd pæːdiʃæːhiː bæːɾɨdɨ |
| Almighty God had given him no son. |
xodɒːʷændi æːlæm ona hiʧ ɔɣul ataː elæmɑmiʃdi |
| There he spoke to his vizier: "O Vizier, I've no son. What shall I do about it?" |
bæːdæn vaziːɾæ dədi, ej vaziːɾ, mændæ ki ɔɣul joxdɨ, mæn næ ʧaːɾæ eylem |
| The vizier said: "Ruler of the whole world, what will you do with this possession?" |
vaziːɾ dədi, pɒːdiʃaː-i ɢɨblæ-ji ɒːlæm, sæn bu mɒːlɨ-æmwɒːlɨ næjlijæsæn |
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