فصلنامه ادبیات و زبانهای محلی ایران زمین
سال ششم شماره 2 (پیاپی 12، تابستان 1395)

The significance and validity of livestock in the history of Iran and its role in the economy and livelihood of the Iranian society provided a rich knowledge between generations of ranchers and farmers; especially in the sectors of "sheep and goats". The authors of present article try to give an indication of the rich knowledge, which reflects some degree of difference and diversity from region to region. Firstly, it began by limiting the study to an area (the village of Doulat Abad of Sabzevar) and then limiting the research to almost traditional livestock (almost less altered) work. In the second phase, they gained a lot of expressions by identifying the inhabitants and residents of the village who had spent many years of their life in animal farming, and demanded and recorded their data and livestock information; in turn, it led them to achieve the terms and other information; thus, research slowly took shape and its results revealed a broad range of knowledge in various fields of animal farming, veterinary medicine, anthropology, economics, and languages.

The story of the ascension of Mohammad Prophet is the commonest theme and religious theme in the Southern Kurdish poems. Southern Kurdish poets have viewed the ascension story from different angles to create their poems. Imam Ali’s presence is a common feature of these ascension letters. Since addressing these poems clarifies the popular narrative of the Southern Kurds of the ascension as well; therefore, the authors in this article attempt to give a big picture of the ascension and explain the ascension letters and their manuscripts and study the their reflections in the Southern Kurdish literature.

The modal prefixes which is the indication of the imperative and conditional moods is shown in the Mokriyani's dialect by two prefixes as (bi- & da-) which cause some phonological processes when they are added to the verb stems. In this paper by following the general principles of autosegmental phonology, we are looking for defining these phonological processes of adding (da-) to the verb stems in the mentioned dialect. The layout of the research is comply with one of the sub-theories of generative phonology here means autosegmental phonology.
The required data are gathered by reviewing the accessible sources and documenting the written data which are mentioned in Kurdish books and texts.
The gained results show that three phonological processes are more prominent among other phenomena which consist of glide-insertion, syllable reduction and metathesis. Among these three phenomena, glide insertion is the most prevalent one in comparison to the previous ones of glide insertion and syllable reduction

The Khalaji dialect is known as one of the ancient Turkish dialect in Iran. Due to its location of spoken area, among the Persian speaking zone, it has no interaction with other Turkish dialects. For this reason, the Khalaji dialect accepted wide linguistic adaptations due to the coexistence and social intercourse with critical Persian language. The purpose of this study is to investigate the involved factors in the dialect change among immigrants living in Tehran, as well as, the lexical change and speaking style of immigrants in the Tehran language community. Qualitative analysis indicated that some Khalaji phonemes are significantly similar to the critical Persian language.
The quantitative analysis investigated many items like gender, social class, education, occupation, age, immigration age, length of residence, and place of residence in Tehran among which the age arrival is the most significant factor related to the Khalaji's change

The Hendijani dialect is one of the most popular dialects in Khouzestan Province that the vast majority of people in Hendijan city speak it. Typologically this dialect considered to be one of the Western New Iranian languages and dialects and due to similarities that it has with Lori dialects it is said to be one of them. This descriptive-analytical article aims to recognize the verb system of Hendijani dialect.
This research has been conducted based on the interview with the subject's age range from middle to the old and illiterate to less illiterate. The data, then are analyzed regarding the frequency of occurrence. The results show that in this dialect the future verb tense doesnt exist and simple present tense is used instead

From the ancient era, using the elements of nature has great popularity in Persian literature and particularly Lori literature as one of the subcategories of similar root in this language. Investigation of the Lori literature has indicated that the natural elements and scopes and their implications have the most usages in their sayings and manuscripts.
These factors consisted of mountains, forests, trees, plants, snow and rain; easily and tangibly, they reflected the nature in Lori poetry. Among them, there are some trees and plants highlighted this nostalgic and emotional views. Regarding this, the aromatic plant named 'Chavil' is the most influential in expressing the romance. The use of oak in the Lori lyrics represents the strength and steadiness of these people and it is their honor symbol.
The trees such as sycamore and willow are known for their calm shadow. The plant tree of Bengaroo is the symbol of worthless in the Lori literature