Khunsari language

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".

Khansari
Khusaari
Native to	Iran
Native speakers	(21,000 cited 2000)[1]
Language family	Indo-European Indo-Iranian Iranian Western Northwestern II Central Iranian Languages Northwestern Khansari
Language codes
ISO 639-3	kfm
Glottolog	khun1255
ELP	Khunsari