lingvoj.orgLinked Languages ResourcesA contribution to the Web of Databy Bernard Vatant, Mondeca |
Vafsi |
vafSearch languages |
Complete list of languages | This page in other languages : [fr] |
Vafsi, is an Iranian language spoken in the Vafs village and surrounding area in the Markazi province of Iran. Vafsi belongs
to a branch of Iranian languages called the Central Dialects. Vafsi forms a passage from the Central Dialects to the north-western
Iranian languages. The Iranian languages form a top-level constituent of the Indo-European language family. The dialects of
the Tafresh region share many features with the Central Plateau dialects, however their lexical inventory has many items in
common with the Talysh subgroup. Vafsi is an oral language and has no official status in the Islamic Republic of Iran. Vafsi
is heavily influenced by Persian. Vafsi has six short vowel phonemes, five long vowel phonemes and two nasal vowel phonemes.
The consonant inventory is basically the same as in Persian. Nouns are inflected for gender (masculine, feminine), number
(singular, plural) and case (direct, oblique). The oblique case marks the possessor (preceding the head noun), the definite
direct object, nouns governed by a preposition, and the subject of transitive verbs in the past tense. Personal pronouns are
inflected for number (singular, plural) and case (direct, oblique). A set of enclitic pronouns is used to indicate the agent
of transitive verbs in the past tenses. There are two demonstrative pronouns: one for near deixis, one for remote deixis.
The use of the Persian ezafe construction is spreading, however there is also a native possessive construction, consisting
of the possessor (unmarked or marked by the oblique case) preceding the head noun. The verbal inflection is based on two stems:
present and past stem. Person and number are indicated personal suffixes attached to the stem. In the transitive past tense
the verb consists of the bare past stem and personal concord with the subject is provided by enclitic pronouns following the
stem or a constituent preceding the verb. Two modal prefixes are used to convey modal and aspectual information. The past
participle is employed in the formation of compound tenses. Vafsi is a split ergative language: Split ergativity means that
a language has in one domain accusative morphosyntax and in another domain ergative morphosyntax. In Vafsi the present tense
is structured the accusative way and the past tense is structured the ergative way. Accusative morphosyntax means that in
a language subjects of intransitive and transitive verbs are treated the same way and direct objects are treated another way.
Ergative morphosyntax means that in a language subjects of intransitive verbs and direct objects are treated one way and subjects
of transitive verbs are treated another way. In the Vafsi past tense subjects of intransitive verbs and direct objects are
marked by the direct case whereas subjects of transitive verbs are marked by the oblique case. This feature characterizes
the Vafsi past tense as ergative. The unmarked order of constituents is SOV like in most other Iranian languages. |
Names (more)[br] Vafseg[en] Vafsi language [th] ภาษาวาฟซิ |
Language type : Living
Technical notes
This page is providing structured data for the language Vafsi. |
ISO 639 CodesISO 639-3 : vafLinked Data URIshttp://lexvo.org/id/iso639-3/vafhttp://dbpedia.org/resource/ISO_639:vaf More URIs at sameas.org SourcesAuthority documentation for ISO 639 identifier: vafFreebase ISO 639-3 : vaf GeoNames.org Country Information Publications Office of the European Union Metadata Registry : Countries and Languages |