Abstract

This article, in line with “The National Project of the Dialectology”, aims to provide a linguistic atlas in the East of Guilan province. Due to the large number of speakers in the southern edge of the Caspian Sea and many differences between dialects and accents, this area has great importance linguistically and providing the linguistic atlas in representation and introduction of dialects in this land can be an important achievement to access the indigenous, cultural, social and historical studies among linguistics and persons who are interested in culture. In order to achieve this principal issue, there has been investigated the morphological differences and similarities (lexical - inflectional) of language varieties in the East of Guilan province with the standard Persian- even more than phonetic and syntactic analysis- and they can have the principal role in providing the linguistic atlas. So in this article, through presenting the morphological evidences (lexical - inflectional) and comparing them with standard Persian, there has been marked a dialect with different accents- the Guilaki dialect from the East of Guilan province and it has been depicted for linguistic atlas. The study was conducted by library and field method and by collecting data from a questionnaire consisting of 100 words and sampling from 20 villages in the East of Guilan province- from Astaneh Ashrafieh to the end of the eastern border of Guilan province (Chaboksar). The data obtained by each village has been considered in the tables related to each word and has been moved on the map of region after comparing with the standard Persian and finally the linguistic atlas has been made. To achieve genuine accents, the speakers of middle-aged who spent much of their life in the area have been helped and villages have been considered with more phonetic differences in accent.

Highlights

  • Language has been known as a systematic phenomenon used for communication among people in all human societiessmall and remote communities

  • Linguistics is the scientific study of language and one of its branches is to collect and investigate various dialects and accents scientifically called “dialectology”

  • Collecting the dialects of each country and geographical region is important in preserving oral heritage of every people and nation and makes possible historical–comparative study of languages and can provide studies related to linguistics such as anthropology, sociology, etc

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INTRODUCTION

Language has been known as a systematic phenomenon used for communication among people in all human societiessmall and remote communities. The implementation of the information obtained from these language varieties on the map provide the dialect or linguistic atlas leading to become easier the study of dialects. Providing the linguistic atlas of the East of Guilan province is a scientific research in this field in order to fulfill the efforts of our great masters in linguistics – Dr Yadollah Samareh and Dr Iran Kalbassi – and the other researchers who have taken steps in realization of “The National Project of the Dialectology of Iran” that the results of this project can be used by the researchers of other courses and even nonPersian language researchers. - Kalbassi has published two works entitled “The Dialect of Kalardasht (Roudbarak)” and “A Descriptive Dictionary of Linguistic Varieties in Iran” in 1997 and 2009. It has been translated into Persian by Baghbidi in 2003

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