Tehran dialect
E22450
The Tehran dialect is the modern urban variety of Persian spoken in Iran’s capital, which serves as the basis for contemporary standard Persian in media and education.
Aliases (3)
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
dialect
→
variety of Persian → |
| basisFor |
contemporary standard Persian
→
standard Persian used in Iranian education → standard Persian used in Iranian media → |
| closelyRelatedTo |
Tehrani accent of standard Persian
→
|
| contrastWith |
classical Persian
→
formal written Persian → |
| country |
Iran
→
|
| hasFeature |
distinct colloquial vocabulary compared to formal Persian
→
frequent use of enclitic pronouns → phonological distinction between colloquial and literary Persian → reduction of short vowels in unstressed syllables → simplified verb morphology in colloquial speech → use of discourse particles common in Tehran speech → use of informal second-person pronouns → |
| hasLexicon |
Tehrani Persian vocabulary
→
|
| hasMorphology |
Tehrani Persian morphology
→
|
| hasPhonology |
Tehrani Persian phonology
→
|
| hasSyntax |
Tehrani Persian syntax
→
|
| influencedBy |
migration to Tehran from other regions of Iran
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|
| influences |
spoken Persian of younger generations in Iran
→
|
| languageFamily |
Indo-Iranian languages
→
Iranian languages → Southwestern Iranian languages → Western Iranian languages → |
| partOf |
Persian language
→
|
| regionOfInfluence |
urban centers of Iran
→
|
| register |
primarily colloquial
→
|
| sociolinguisticStatus |
prestige dialect in Iran
→
urban colloquial norm in central Iran → |
| spokenIn |
Iran
→
Tehran → Tehran Province → |
| standardizationRole |
model for pronunciation in Iranian Persian dictionaries
→
reference accent for Iranian broadcasters → |
| timePeriod |
modern era
→
|
| usedBy |
many Iranian urban speakers in informal contexts
→
residents of Tehran → |
| usedIn |
Iranian cinema
→
Iranian radio → Iranian television → informal education and peer communication in Tehran → popular music in Iran → |
| writingSystem |
Arabic script
→
Persian alphabet → |
Referenced by (4)
| Subject (surface form when different) | Predicate |
|---|---|
|
Southwestern Iranian languages
("Tehrani Persian")
→
|
hasMajorLanguage |
|
Tehran dialect
("Tehrani Persian morphology")
→
|
hasMorphology |
|
Tehran dialect
("Tehrani Persian phonology")
→
|
hasPhonology |
|
Persian language
→
|
standardFormBasedIn |