| Sangsari | |
|---|---|
| سنگسری, Sangesari | |
 | |
| Native to | Semnan,Mazanderan,Tehran,Golestan &Markazi provinces ofIran |
| Region | Elburz |
| Ethnicity | Semnani |
Native speakers | 43,000 (2021)[1] |
| Persian alphabet | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | sgr |
| Glottolog | sang1315 |
| ELP | Sangisari |
Sangsari orSangisari is anIranian language spoken mainly in theSemnan andTehran provinces ofIran, especially in theSangesar (Mahdi Shehr) town and in several surrounding villages. Sangsari is included in theSemnani group ofNorthwestern Iranian languages that also includesLasgerdi,Semnani, andSorkhei.[2] There are around 50,000 Sangsari speakers.[3]
Glottolog classifies Sangsari under "Komisenian" languages ofNorthwestern Iranian branch ofIranian language family.[4] This designation is also adopted byWiktionary.[5]
Thevowels of Sangsari are/a,aː,e,eː,i,o,ö,u,uː/. Theconsonants are the same as inPersian.[6]
Sangseri distinguishes two numbers in pronouns—singular and plural—and marks two cases in the singular—the direct (nominative) and the oblique (other cases). Masculine and feminine forms are distinct in the singular third person pronouns.[7]
| 1 sg | 2 sg | 3 sg masc. | 3 sg fem. | 1 pl | 2 pl | 3 pl | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| dir. | a | tö | nö | nā | ham | xā | anun |
| obl. | ma | ta | ne | nī | ham | xā | anun |
Pierre Lecoq. 1989. "Les dialectes caspiens et les dialectes du nord-ouest de l'Iran,"Compendium Linguarum Iranicarum. Ed. Rüdiger Schmitt. Wiesbaden: Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag. Pages 296–314.
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