Razi dialect
| Rhazi dialect | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Iran |
| Region | Ray |
| Era | Early Islamic period |
Indo-European
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| Persian alphabet | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | None (mis) |
| Glottolog | None |
The Razi dialect was a
Buyid branch of Ray.[1] As Ray was located in the historical region of Media, its local language in the pre-Islamic era, according to the modern historian Hassan Rezai Baghbidi, must have been Median.[2]
The oldest surviving source that refers to the Razi dialect is a book that the Arab geographer
al-Muqaddasi (died 991) wrote in the 10th-century;[3]
The people of Ray change their names, instead of ʿAlī, Ḥasan and Aḥmad, they say ʿlkʾ / Alkā/, ḥskʾ /Haskā/, ḥmkʾ /Hamkā/ … in Ray they use rā, they say rʾdh /rā-dah/ “give!”, rʾkn /rā-kun/ “do!” … among the languages of the aʿājim (i. e. the Iranian people) there is no language more attractive than that of the people of Ray.
Some of the words used in the Tehrani dialect may derive from Razi, such as sūsk "beetle; cockroach", jīrjīrak "cricket", zālzālak "haw(thorn)", and vejīn "weeding".[4]
References
- ^ a b Baghbidi 2016, p. 403.
- ^ Baghbidi 2016, pp. 404, 406.
- ^ Baghbidi 2016, p. 408.
- ^ Baghbidi 2016, p. 409.
Sources
- Baghbidi, Hassan Rezai (2016). "The Linguistic History of Rayy up to the Early Islamic Period". Der Islam. 93 (2). De Gruyter: 403–412. .