Göklen dialect

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The Göklen dialect is a regional variety of the Turkmen language traditionally spoken by the Göklen Turkmen people of northeastern Iran and surrounding areas.


Statements (47)
Predicate Object
instanceOf dialect
variety of Turkmen language
associatedWithTribe Oghuz
surface form: "Göklen tribe"
belongsToEthnolinguisticGroup Turkmens
surface form: "Iranian Turkmen"
closelyRelatedTo Teke dialect of Turkmen
Turkmen language
surface form: "Yomut dialect of Turkmen"

standard Turkmen
codeSwitchingWith Persian language
surface form: "Persian"
country Iran
domainOfUse home and community
local markets
tribal gatherings
endangeredStatus vulnerable
ethnicAssociation Göklen Turkmen
geographicDistribution Caspian lowlands of northeastern Iran
hasAlternativeName Göklen dialect
surface form: "Goklen Turkmen dialect"

Göklen Turkmen
hasFeature SOV basic word order
agglutinative morphology
vowel harmony typical of Turkic languages
historicallyUsedScript Arabic script
influencedBy standard Turkmen of Turkmenistan media
languageBranch Oghuz Turkic language
surface form: "Oghuz languages"
languageFamily Turkic languages
lexicalInfluenceFrom Kurdish language
Mazanderani language
surface form: "Mazandarani language"

Persian language
mutualIntelligibilityWith other Turkmen dialects
oralTradition strong
partOf Turkmen language
primaryLanguageOfEducation Persian (for its speakers)
regionallyInfluencedBy Iranian languages
sociolinguisticContext bilingualism in Turkmen and Persian
spokenBy Turkmens
surface form: "Göklen Turkmen people"
spokenIn Golestan Province
Gonbad-e Kavus region
areas bordering Turkmenistan
northeastern Iran
standardizationStatus not fully standardized
status minority language variety in Iran
subclassOf Oghuz Turkic dialect
usedIn folklore
oral communication
traditional poetry
tribal songs
usesScript Perso-Arabic script
writingTradition limited

Referenced by (3)

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

Teke dialect closelyRelatedTo Göklen dialect
this entity surface form: "Goklen dialect"
Göklen dialect hasAlternativeName Göklen dialect
this entity surface form: "Goklen Turkmen dialect"
Turkmen language hasDialect Göklen dialect

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