A Comparative Study on the Culture of North and South Kerman Province

Cultural diffusion is a process through which cultural sets or elements are transferred from one culture or society to another, absorbed gradually and cause its change. Base on this theory, a cultural issue which is considered as a sign of a society is, borrowed by the other society and is accepted. Because of natural conditions and its long history, Kerman Province has met a variety of things such as Fars, Balouch, Turk, and Lor. In the present research, after introducing the geographical, social, and cultural situation of Kerman Province, we study the linguistic culture of the ‘North’ and the ‘South’ of this province. Results of this paper show that the dialects of the South of the Province are mostly affected by the immigrants’ dialects and they are much closer to the Middle Persian. On the other hand, the dialects of the North of the Province are affected by the new Persian. All data are collected by the native speakers of each dialect through recording their sounds by a professional microphone and they are all analyzed by the PRAAT Sound- analyzer Software. Results may be fruitful for anthropologists and linguists.