Daylami language
| Deilami | |
|---|---|
| Daylamite, Deylami, Dailamite | |
| ديلمی | |
| Native to | Iran |
| Region | South Caspian Sea, Daylam |
| Era | 900–1300AD[1] |
| Persian alphabet | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | None (mis) |
| Glottolog | None |
The Daylami language, also known as Daylamite, Deilami, Dailamite, or Deylami (Persian: دیلمی, from the name of the
Gīlān
.
Al-Muqaddasi, a medieval Arab geographer, who wrote "they have an obscure language and they use the phoneme khe /x/ a lot."[2] Abū Esḥāq Ṣābī had a similar report on people in the Deylam highlands who spoke a distinct language.[3]
According to Wilfered Madelung, in the early Islamic period the language of the Deylamites was a northwestern Iranian language. One of the characteristics of this language was an added ī sound between consonants and ā (Lāhījān=Līāhījān, Amīrkā=Amīrkīā).[4]
Notes
- ISBN 0-936347-35-X, 9780936347356, p. 269.
- ISBN 0-936347-35-X, 9780936347356, p. 269.
- ^ Wilferd Madelung. Abū Isḥāq al-Ṣābī on the Alids of Tabaristān and Gīlān. Journal of Near Eastern Studies, Vol. 26, No. 1 (Jan., 1967), pp. 17-57, University of Chicago Press.
- ^ Wilferd Maelung, Deylamites Encyclopedia Iranica Archived 2009-05-31 at the Wayback Machine.