Sorkhei language
Appearance
Sorkhei | |
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Region | Iran |
Native speakers | 10,000 (2006 census)[1] |
Dialects |
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | sqo |
Glottolog | sork1239 |
ELP | Sorkhei |
Sorkhei is a Western Iranian language and a Persian dialect. It is spoken in village of Sorkheh in Semnan Province in northwestern Iran.[2]
Trivia
During the Iran nuclear negotiations, urgent telephone conversations between Iranian President Hassan Rouhani and Hossein Fereydoun, his aide traveling with the negotiating team, were conducted in Sorkhei. This was done to eliminate or reduce comprehensibility of the conversation by any eavesdroppers.[3]
Notes
Bibliography
- 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.
- Habib Borjian. 2008. “The Komisenian Dialect of Aftar,” Archiv Orientální 76: 379-416.