Sangisari language

E214830

The Sangisari language is an endangered Northwestern Iranian language spoken by a small community in northern Iran, notable for its distinct phonology and conservative grammatical features.

All labels observed (4)

Label Occurrences
Sangisari language canonical 1
Sangiseri language 1
Sangsari language 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (42)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Northwestern Iranian language
endangered language
natural language
country Iran
distinctFrom Mazanderani language
Persian language
endangermentLevel definitely endangered
family Indo-European language family
surface form: Indo-European languages
group Western Iranian languages
hasAlternativeName Sangesari
Sangisari
Sangisori
hasFeature conservative grammatical features
distinct phonology
hasLexicalFeature conservative Iranian vocabulary
hasMorphologicalFeature conservative nominal inflection
conservative verbal inflection
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive vowel length
rich consonant inventory
hasSociolinguisticFeature limited intergenerational transmission
mainly oral use
hasSyntacticFeature postpositions rather than prepositions
iso639-3Code sgr
languageFamily Iranian languages
linguisticClassification Northwestern Iranian
primaryCountry Iran
region northern Iran
relatedTo Mazanderani language
Semnani languages
spokenBy Sangisari people
spokenIn Sangisar area
Semnan Province
status endangered
subbranch Iranian languages
subfamily Indo-Iranian languages
subgroup Northwestern Iranian languages
threatenedBy language shift to Persian
typologicalFeature SOV word order
complex verbal morphology
rich case system
usedBy small speech community
writingSystem Perso-Arabic script

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (4)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Caspian languages hasMemberLanguage Sangisari language
this entity surface form: Sangiseri language
Semnani languages hasMember Sangisari language
this entity surface form: Sangsari language
Western Iranian languages hasSubdivision Sangisari language
this entity surface form: Sivandi language