Khunsari dialect ( Persian: گویش خوانساری) is a Central dialect within the Northwestern Iranian languages, spoken in Khansar, a town in the west of Isfahan Province of Iran. Some of the oldest isoglosses include the development of Aryan palatals to fricatives: OIr. *dz > z: mossar “big”, kissar “small”, heze “yesterday”, zun- “know”, zumā “son-in-law” (but yešt “ugly” < SW *a-dushta-, cf. NPers. zesht < NW *a-zushta- “unloved”); *tsw > sp: isba, espa “dog” (< Median spaka-), espid “white”, ešpiž “louse”.

References

Further reading

• Eilers, Wilhelm (1976). Die Mundart von Chunsar [The Dialect of Khunsar]. Westiranische Mundarten aus der Sammlung Wilhelm Eilers (in German). Vol. 1. Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag GMBH. ISBN  3-515-02009-8.

External links

• GEOGRAPHY OF THE MEDIAN DIALECTS OF ISFAHAN, Encyclopedia Iranica^{[ permanent dead link]}