فصلنامه ادبیات و زبانهای محلی ایران زمین
سال دوم شماره 1 (پیاپی 4، بهار 1391)

Iran is a country that has various nationalities. Each one has its own customs. They create one united nation as they are adhered to their ethnic culture in their national cultural framework. The most durable, effective and appropriate conventional art among the Arab people of Khuzestan is the poetry art. Poetry is so common among them. The kinds of eloquent poetries and types of folksy verses such as Abozyye, Meimer, Hose,Mavval, Naee, Chobiye, Hado, Rakban, Darami, Nayel, Dallellol, etc. are always companion of Khuzestan Arab people. In the present article, after one historical introduction to Khuzestan Arabs in details, the history of Arab poetry in this district and the most famous structures and formats of Arab poetries are explained with example

Nâyini is widely spoken in Nâyin and its adjacent regions of Isfahan province, central Iran which belongs to the North-West branch of the Iranian languages family
A number of European scholars primarily studied the Nayini Dialect such as A. Kerry (1896), V. Ivanov (1926), W.Geiger, O.Mann and C.Hadank. Among Iranian researchers M.Sotudeh (1986/1365) compiled a dictionary of Nâyini Dialect The researcher’s aim is to extract Nâini phonemes, and thereafter to describe the phonological structure of Nâyini based on a contrastive analysis using minimal pairs

This article "the study of cultural and geographical features in Kerman proverbs" tries to set the theoretical bases of the research on Kerman proverbs considering ethnological theories like: "evolutionism", "diffusionism", "functionalism", "structuralism", "structural linguistic", "Culture and personality", "mythology" and all the gathered data have been analyzed in content through the field of study and the cooperative observation technique around the subject and goals to answer the research questions. In this article, the structural components and the functions of Kerman proverbs have been studied and analyzed from the level of description in ethnography to the level of explanation in ethnology.

In this study, it is tried to analyze Behbahani as a local Dialect to specify to which category, the dialect or the accent, belongs. Using related literature and findings, verb conjugation has been reviewed for different tenses in Behbahani to conduct the study. The results of the study revealed that, in spite of the similarities between standard Persian and Behbahani dialects in their sentence structure levels and patterns, Behbahani is unique and completely different from standard Persian in the verb conjugation level. Finally, it is concluded that Behbahni, linguistically, is categorized in dialects of Persian.

The Iranian had special ways and traditions to do different actions some of which have been forgotten at present. The signs of these forgotten traditions may be found at the cities and villages on which they live of the ancient forgotten traditions. The main question of this paper is there any similarity between these traditions and Shahnameh tradition in the Kermanshah province of Iran? In this investigation, three traditions of the villages in the Kermanshah province with the samples of the local poems in the Kermanshah Kurdish Language have been studied. These traditions and poems have been compared with three Shahnameh traditions named the Moghany roaring, fastening bloody Zonnar and Cutting hair. The results of the study showed the close surprising similarity between the Shahnameh and the Kermanshahi mourning traditions.

The Firuzabadi dialect is spoken by inhabitants of Firuzabad , a town located in Fars province. In this paper, the verb, structure, tense, conjugation, subjunctive, and imperative, etc. have been described and other subjects of this dialect need more investigations. This study has showed there are some differences in the verb (words, sound change, ending and affixation) between Firuzabadi and Persian dialects.

This research is an attempt to describe the sound system of the Nishabouri Dialect. As there has been no conducted comprehensive study on this dialect, the present investigation was carried out as a fieldwork
Interviews conducted in this research considering the factors of age, sex, literacy, and migration for selecting the samples
This research begins with a full description of the Nishabouri Dialect and the geographical area where this dialect is used. It, then, deals with an introduction and description of the vowels, consonants, and phonological rules of Nishabouri dialect

This article presents a morpheme in Hazaragi dialect in Afghanistan which has very specific features. This morpheme which is just composed of one phoneme, lonely conveys the sense of approval which means yes. It is used by old speakers
The reflexive feature of this phoneme, which is very rare in Indo-European languages, is solely reliable. This article, first, presents the Hazaragi region and dialect. Then, it explores the similar sounds in other dialects and languages and it introduces the mentioned morpheme (atof). Then, the conclusion and references will come.