Sivandi language

Sivandi
Sivandi
زووآن ئ سیوندی
Native to	Iran
Region	Fars province
Native speakers	(3,000 cited 2000)
Language family	Indo-European Indo-Iranian Iranian Western Iranian Northwestern Central Iran-Kermanic Sivandi; ; ; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	siy
Glottolog	siva1239
ELP	Sivandi

Sivandi, is a Northwestern Iranian language spoken in Sivand, located in Fars province, Iran.⁴ Despite its linguistic classification as a Northwestern Iranian language, it constitutes a geographic isolate functioning as a linguistic enclave entirely surrounded by Southwestern Iranian languages and various local Persian dialects.⁵

Classification

Sivandi is classified as a Northwestern Iranian language by Glottolog and Ethnologue:⁶⁷

Iranian
- Central Iranian PBS
  - Central Iranian PB
    - Northwestern Iranian
      - Central Iran Kermanic
        Sivandi

Grammar

Sivandi, along with Khuri and Farvi, is distinguished from the remaining Western Iranian languages by the notable development of the Proto-Iranian *hw to *f, for instance: hwahar -> far; sister.⁵⁸⁹

References

Ethnologue gives a figure of 7,030. However, this is a guestimate based on 35,000 speakers divided among five recognized languages.
Sivandi at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin (eds.). "Sivandi". Glottolog . Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin (eds.). "Sivandi". Glottolog . Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
Windfuhr, Gernot L. (1991). "CENTRAL DIALECTS". Encyclopædia Iranica. V (3): 242–252.
Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2026). "Sivandi". Glottolog 5.3. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
"Central Iran". Ethnologue. Retrieved 6 June 2026.
Beekes, Robert S. P. (1997). "Historical phonology of Iranian". Journal of Indo-European Studies. 25 (1&2): 4.
Borjian, Habib (2018). "The Dialect of Khur". In M. De, Chiara; Rossi, A. V.; Septfond, D. (eds.). Mélanges d'ethnographie et de dialectologie irano-aryennes à la mémoire de Charles-Martin Kieffe. 79. Paris: Mélanges d’ethnographie et de dialectologie irano-aryennes à la mémoire de Charles-Martin Kieffer. ISBN 978-2910640477.

External links

Encyclopædia Iranica article on Fars Dialects
Sivandi language (in Persian)

[1] Ethnologue gives a figure of 7,030. However, this is a guestimate based on 35,000 speakers divided among five recognized languages.

[e25-2] Sivandi at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)

[3] Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin (eds.). "Sivandi". Glottolog . Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.

[:0-4] Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin (eds.). "Sivandi". Glottolog . Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.

[:1-5] Windfuhr, Gernot L. (1991). "CENTRAL DIALECTS". Encyclopædia Iranica. V (3): 242–252.

[6] Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2026). "Sivandi". Glottolog 5.3. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.

[7] "Central Iran". Ethnologue. Retrieved 6 June 2026.

[8] Beekes, Robert S. P. (1997). "Historical phonology of Iranian". Journal of Indo-European Studies. 25 (1&2): 4.

[9] Borjian, Habib (2018). "The Dialect of Khur". In M. De, Chiara; Rossi, A. V.; Septfond, D. (eds.). Mélanges d'ethnographie et de dialectologie irano-aryennes à la mémoire de Charles-Martin Kieffe. 79. Paris: Mélanges d’ethnographie et de dialectologie irano-aryennes à la mémoire de Charles-Martin Kieffer. ISBN 978-2910640477.

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