This page contains links to research projects, academic departments and institutes, and language resources for Iranian languages.
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Research Projects - Iranian Languages [powerpoint poster]
Contact: Dr. Carina Jahani
The main focus of the research in Iranian languages at Uppsala University is on structural linguistics, linguistic contact and sociolinguistics of different Iranian languages, including Persian, Balochi, Kurdish, Pashto, Gilaki and Mazandarani.
Another focus is research on the sociolinguistic milieu of Iranian languages (inside and outside Iran) and on languages of Iran (belonging to various language families, e.g. Iranian, Semitic, Turkic, Dravidian). Issues in focus are particularly contact induced grammatical changes, language maintenance versus language shift, codeswitching and conversational analysis as well as orthographies of different Iranian languages.- Current research projects:
- Language, identity and society: a documentation of minority languages in IRan, their sociolinguistic milieu and the rold of the langauge in individual and group identity. (2007-2009)
- Bilingualism as a resource in students' socialization process in multilingual contexts in higher education. (2007-2009)
- Research Center for Iranian Culture, Shahid Bahonar University of Kerman, Iran.
- Research projects: culture, history and typology of old Persian.
- Cultural Research Bureau, Linguistics Dept., Tehran, Iran.
Director: Dr. Yahya Modarresi
The aim of this group is to conduct theoretical and applied linguistics studies on Persian. Some of the projects of this group include:- A dictionary of Qajar terminology
- A study of foreign loan-words in Persian
- Local dialects in Iranian films
- Teaching Persian to non-natives; a compilation of resource texts and materials, and language instruction workshops including a comprehensive bibliography.
- Current research projects:
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Language Resources
- UCLA Language Materials Project, teaching resources for various Iranian languages.
- Persian Online, Persian language instructional site from the University of Texas at Austin. In addition to teaching materials, this site also includes very useful descriptive information on Persian grammar and diglossia issues.
- Persian Online, Persian language instructional site from the University of Texas at Austin. In addition to teaching materials, this site also includes very useful descriptive information on Persian grammar and diglossia issues.
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Academic Departments and Institutes
- Showrây-e gostaresh-e zabân va adabiyât-e fârsi (Assembly for the Expansion of Persian Language and Literature) - in Persian
The Persian Language Academy is reponsible for the maintenance of Persian language and the propagation of its use in various domains. The Academy regularly creates new words in technology and to substitute loanwords. The website contains information on the following:
- Standard orthography rules
- Journal of the Academy
- List of approved new words
- Farhangestân-e zabân va adab-e fârsi (Persian Language Academy) - in Persian
- International Society of Iranian Studies (ISIS)
- Iranian Studies Group at MIT
- American Institute of Iranian Studies
- Iranology Foundation
- Near Eastern Studies at the University of Arizona.
- Center for Languages of the Central Asian Region (CeLCAR) at Indiana University.
- Iranian Studies Webpage at Near Eastern Languages and Cultures in UCLA.
- Department of Near Eastern Studies, University of Michigan.
- University of Washington NELC
- National Middle East Language Resource Center
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Links to Sites on Iranian Languages
- Kerman Linguistics Forum
- [Broken site] This site has a goal similar to our own. Its objective is to provide an opportunity for Iranian linguists throughout the world to exchange ideas on different linguistic topics and to promote researches on Linguistics.
- Kurd_lal: Kurdish Language and Linguistics
- [Discontinued] This page is available through APL2C and is committed to the promotion of Kurdish language and linguistics.
- [Broken site] This site has a goal similar to our own. Its objective is to provide an opportunity for Iranian linguists throughout the world to exchange ideas on different linguistic topics and to promote researches on Linguistics.