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Shushtari dialect

Shushtari is a language variety spoken in and around the city of Shushtar in Khuzestan Province in southwestern Iran. It constitutes a Southwestern Iranian dialect group with the Dezfuli dialect, which is spoken in Dezful, the adjacent city. The main difference between Dezfuli and Shushtari is in vowel pronunciation. Linguist List has classified Shushtri and Dezfuli as a language independent from Persian. Glottolog places the Dezfuli and Shoshtri dialects with the Luri language in a group called Luric–Dezfulic. In the article on the dialects of Khuzestan, Iranica considers the Dezfuli, Shoshtri, and Bakhtiari dialects to belong to the southern group of the Luri language.

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Shushtari
Šuštari, شوشترية
Native toIran
RegionKhuzestan
Native speakers
340,000 (including Dezfuli)1
Language codes
ISO 639-3–
Glottologshus1253

Shushtari (Persian: شوشتری [ʃuːʃtæˈɾiː]) is a language variety spoken in and around the city of Shushtar in Khuzestan Province in southwestern Iran. It constitutes a Southwestern Iranian dialect group with the Dezfuli dialect, which is spoken in Dezful, the adjacent city.45 The main difference between Dezfuli and Shushtari is in vowel pronunciation.67 Linguist List has classified Shushtri and Dezfuli as a language independent from Persian.8 Glottolog places the Dezfuli and Shoshtri dialects with the Luri language in a group called Luric–Dezfulic.9 In the article on the dialects of Khuzestan, Iranica considers the Dezfuli, Shoshtri, and Bakhtiari dialects to belong to the southern group of the Luri language.10

Personal pronouns

Person Shushtari Dezfuli Standard Persian
1st singular mo mo: man
2nd singular to to: to
3rd singular ū ù ū
1st plural amā o:mù mā
2nd plural šamā šomù šomā
3rd plural ūšū ùšù īšān (honorary), ānhā (standard)
References

References

  1. https://iranatlas.net/index.html?module=module.language-distribution.khuzestan_heritage
  2. https://iranicaonline.org/articles/dezful-03-dialect
  3. https://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/luri1257
  4. "Shushtari-Dezfuli Dialects". دانشنامه ایرانیکا. Archived from the original on November 18, 2020. Retrieved August 18, 2020.
  5. "KHUZESTAN viii. Dialects". دانشنامه ایرانیکا. Archived from the original on November 19, 2020. Retrieved October 19, 2014.
  6. Shushtari and Dezfuli Dialects
  7. Khuzestan Dialects, Encyclopedia Iranica
  8. "Linguist List - Show languages in a Country". archive.ph. 2014-09-10.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link)
  9. "Glottolog 5.1 - Luric-Dezfulic". glottolog.org. Retrieved 2025-04-04.
  10. "Iranica Khuzestan dialects".