Mashhad dialect

E576569

The Mashhad dialect is a regional variety of Persian spoken in and around the city of Mashhad in northeastern Iran, characterized by distinctive phonological and lexical features.

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All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Mashhad dialect canonical 1
Mashhadi Persian 1

Statements (46)

Predicate Object
instanceOf dialect
variety of Persian
belongsTo Southwestern Iranian languages NERFINISHED
closelyRelatedTo Khorasani Persian dialects NERFINISHED
contrastWith Standard Iranian Persian NERFINISHED
Tehran Persian NERFINISHED
country Iran
hasAlternativeName Mashhadi Persian NERFINISHED
Mashhadi dialect
hasFeature colloquial speech forms
distinctive lexicon
distinctive phonology
local idioms
phonological reduction of some vowels
prosodic patterns distinct from Standard Persian
regional vocabulary
hasLexicalFeature local terms not used in Standard Persian
hasPhonologicalFeature distinct realization of some consonants compared to Standard Persian
distinct realization of some vowels compared to Standard Persian
hasSociolinguisticStatus marker of local identity in Mashhad
influencedBy Standard Persian NERFINISHED
neighboring Khorasani dialects
languageCodeStatus no ISO 639-3 code
languageFamily Indo-European language family
surface form: Indo-European languages

Indo-Iranian languages
mutualIntelligibilityWith Standard Persian NERFINISHED
partOf Persian language continuum
region Mashhad NERFINISHED
Razavi Khorasan Province NERFINISHED
northeastern Iran
register primarily spoken
standardFormOf none (non-standard variety)
status regional dialect of Persian
subclassOf Iranian Persian dialect
Persian dialect
usedAlongside Standard Persian in formal domains
usedBy local population of Mashhad metropolitan area
native speakers of Mashhad
usedIn city of Mashhad NERFINISHED
rural areas around Mashhad
urban areas around Mashhad
usedInContext family settings
informal communication
local markets and streets of Mashhad
writingSystem Arabic script
Persian alphabet NERFINISHED

Referenced by (2)

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

Western Persian hasMajorDialect Mashhad dialect
Mashhad-e Razavi hasLocalDialect Mashhad dialect
this entity surface form: Mashhadi Persian