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The Extinct Dialect of Tajrish: Caspian or Persian?

2011; Brill; Volume: 4; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1163/187471611x600413

1874-7167

Habib Borjian,

Eurasian Exchange Networks

Abstract Once spoken in the Alborz foothills north of Tehran, the vernacular of Shemirān and its administrative center Tajrish was greatly influenced by the Caspian languages spoken northward across the Alborz range, in its valleys and in the Caspian littoral. This study of Tajrishi draws on the texts collected by Valentin Zhukovskii in the 1880s as well as two recent documentations of smaller size. It reveals that Tajrishi and the adjoining vernaculars constitute the southernmost part of the Caspian-Persian linguistic transition zone in Central Alborz.