A newly discovered Persian variety: the case of “Zoroastrian Persian”
Using a corpus of contemporary Yazdi Zoroastrian oral literature, this article demonstrates that the Persian dialect found in many Zoroastrian songs is different from both Standard Persian and local (Yazdi) Persian. It is argued that Zoroastrian oral literature in New Persian preserves the features...
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| Language: | English |
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Department of Linguistics and Philology, Uppsala University
2020-10-01
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| Series: | Orientalia Suecana |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.uu.se/orientaliasuecana/article/view/528 |