Zazaki Language - Phonological Correspondences of Zazaki and Other Iranian Languages

Phonological Correspondences of Zazaki and Other Iranian Languages

PIE. Old Persian Pahlavi Persian Avestan Parthian Zazaki Kurdish dialects English
*ḱ θ h h s s s s -
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 māhīg māhi masya māsyāg māsa māsî fish
*ǵ(h) d d d z z z z -
ǵno- dān- dān- dān- zān- zān- zān- zān- know
*kʷ č z z č ž j, ž, z ž -
*leuk- raučah rōz ruz raočah rōž roje, rož day
*gʷ j z z j ž j ž -
*gwen-
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 zan zan jaini žan jani žin woman
*d(h)w- duv- d- d- dv- b- b- d- -
*d(h)war- duvar- dar dar dvar- bar -bar darî door
*sw- (h)uv- xw- x- xv- wx- w- xw- -
*swesor
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 xwāhar xāhar xvahar wxar wā xweh sister
*-rd(h),*-ld(h) -rd -l -l -rd -r(δ) -r̄ uncertain -
*ḱered θar(a)d- sal sal sarəδ-
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 sarri sāl year
*-rǵ(h),*-lǵ(h) -rd -l -l -rz -rz -rz uncertain -
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 hil- hel- harəz- hirz- arz- (change of meaning) hêl- let
*-m -m -m -m -m -m -m -v/w -
nomn̥ nāman- nām nām nāman- nām nāme nāv, nāw name
*w- v- w- b- v- w- v- b- -
*wīk'm̥tī
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 wīst bist vīsiti- wīst vist bîst twenty

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