Document Type : Research

Author

• Reza Amini

Institute for Cultural Heritage and Tourism

Abstract

Abstract
This article is a research study on the kinship terms of some New West Iranian languages, including Kurdish, Hawrami, Talysh, and Tati from the New Northwest Iranian sub-branch; and Persian and Luri from the New Southwest Iranian sub-branch. The main goal of the article is to examine the similarities and dissimilarities among the kinship terms of these languages. In terms of methodology, this research is an inductive one, and in terms of method, it is of descriptive-analytical and explanatory type. This research shows that geographical distance and the influences of other languages can be highlighted as causes of dissimilarities observed in the kinship terms of this branch of Iranian languages. In many of the language varieties examined in this research, to refer to several kinship relationships, there are native terms, and their equivalents in standard Persian are borrowed from non-Iranian languages. Hence, it has been argued that by comparing this part of the lexical treasure of Iranian languages, it is possible to recover the main kinship terms of Iranian languages. The semantic changes of some kinship terms are among the other points that the comparative study of the kinship terms of Western Iranian languages reveals.

Keywords

• Kurdish
• Hawrami
• Talysh
• Tati
• Luri

Main Subjects

• Sociolinguistics and cultural linguistics