Sangsari
Spoken in	Semnan & Mazandaran & Golestan & Markazi provinces of Iran.
Region	Elburz
Total speakers	36,000 (2006)[1]
Language family	Indo-European Indo-Iranian Iranian Western Iranian Northwestern Iranian Semnani Sangsari
Writing system	none
Language codes
ISO 639-1	None
ISO 639-2	–
ISO 639-3	sgr
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Sangsari or Sangisari is an Iranian language spoken in the Semnan province of Iran mainly in the Sangsar (Mahdi Shehr) town and in a several surrounding villages. Sangsari is included in the Semnani group of Northwest Iranian languages that also includes Lasgerdi, Semnani, and Sorkhei.^[2] There are around 36,000 Sangsari speakers.^[3]

Contents 1 Phonology 2 Pronouns 3 Notes 4 References

[edit] Phonology

The vowels of Sangsari are /a, a:, e, e:, i, o, ö, u, u:/. The consonants are the same as in Persian.^[4]

[edit] Pronouns

Sangseri distinguishes two numbers in pronouns--singular and plural--and marks two cases in the singular--the direct (nominative) and the oblique (other cases). Masculine and feminine forms are distinct in the singular third person pronouns.^[5]

	1 sg	2 sg	3 sg masc.	3 sg fem.	1 pl	2 pl	3 pl
dir.	a	tö	nö	nā	ham	xā	anun
obl.	ma	ta	ne	nī	ham	xā	anun

[edit] Notes

[edit] References

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.

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