Abyane and its Dialect

  Abyane and its Dialect     Marziye Sanaati [1]       Received: 2012/01/05   Accepted: 2012/07/09       Abstract   Abyane dialect is one of the Iranian central dialects with its own specific characteristics in different areas such as phonetics, morphology and syntax. This dialect is very different in vocabulary from standard Persian. In this article, there is a short introduction about Abyane (the village and its native inhabitants), then some linguistic features are proposed. These features are introduced in some phonetic, morphological and syntactic processes. Analysing the data from Abyane lead the author to conclude that the position of stress is different, in other words in Abyane’s words the stress is pulled forward one syllable in comparison with standard Persian. Some other processes such as apocope and historical changes in some phones are also analysed. In the morphological discussion, different characteristics in gender, number, transitive and intransitive conjugation, pronouns, attributive and genitive constructions are discussed and compared with standard Persian. The word order in different sentences such as declarative (predicative and non-predicative), questions (interrogative and non-interrogative), imperative (positive and negative) are discussed. In the analysis also, the exact position of different parts of sentence and adpositions (prepositions and postpositions considering the object marker “ra”) are included.     Keywords : Abyane dialect, phonological process, morphological process, syntactic process   [1] Assistant Professor, The Research Center of Linguistics, inscriptions and texts   Iranian Cultural Heritage and Tourism Organization. m.sanaati20@gmail.com