Khunsari language

Khansari
Khusaari
Native to	Iran
Native speakers	unknown (21,000 cited 2000)
Language family	Indo-European Indo-Iranian Iranian Western Northwestern II Central Iranian Languages Northwestern Khansari
Language codes
ISO 639-3	kfm
Glottolog	khun1255

Khunsari dialect is a Central dialect within the South Median branch of Northwestern Iranian languages, spoken in Khansar, a town in the west of Isfahan Province of Iran. Some of the oldest isoglosses include the development of Aryan palatals to fricatives: OIr. *dz > z: mossar “big”, kissar “small”, heze “yesterday”, zun- “know”, zumā “son-in-law” (but yešt “ugly” < SW *a-dushta-, cf. NPers. zesht < NW *a-zushta- “ungeliebt”); *tsw > sp: isba, espa “dog” (< Median spaka-), espid “white”, ešpiž “louse”.

References

• GEOGRAPHY OF THE MEDIAN DIALECTS OF ISFAHAN, Encyclopedia Iranica

• Khansari at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)