Abstract
This article is an attempt to investigate and describe Tati Kajal dialect of Khalkhal in Ardebil city that has not ever been studied thoroughly. The article studies the general Phonetic aspects of the dialect. The dialect is one of the dialects in the north-western Iran which has maintained its ancient characteristics and subsequently distinguished itself from Persian language. Some of the characteristics are as follows: ergative structure, passive voice, grammatical gender and mood. Phonetically speaking, in addition to all existing vowel and consonants in standard Persian the dialect also includes such phones as o, u, ə, γ, but there is no glottal stop /?/ in Tati Kajal, because it doesn’t have total distribution in the onset, nucleus and coda of the syllable but it is sometimes used as the middle phoneme. The dialect has kept the vowel /-a/ at the end of lexical morphemes and substitution of vowels in some of the verbs as well.
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