Sorkhei language
| Sorkhei | |
|---|---|
| Sorkhei-Aftari | |
 | |
| Region | Iran |
Native speakers | 12,000 (2021)[1] |
| Dialects |
|
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | sqo |
| Glottolog | sork1239 |
| ELP | |
Sorkhei is a
Semnan Province in northwestern Iran.[2]
Trivia
During the
Iran-Iraq War, radio operators from Sorkheh used the language as a form of cryptography for tactical communications of the Iranian Armed Forces.[3]
During the
eavesdroppers.[4]
Notes
- ^ Sorkhei at Ethnologue (26th ed., 2023)
- ^ Lecoq, pg. 297
- ^ Mehr (in Persian)
- ^ Tabnak (in Persian)
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.
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