The Vowel Systems of Five Iranian Balochi Dialects by Farideh Okati

The vowel systems of five selected Iranian Balochi dialects are investigated in this study, which is
the first work to apply empirical acoustic analysis to a large body of recorded data on the vowel
inventories of different Balochi dialects spoken in Iran. The selected dialects are spoken in the five
regions of Sistan (SI), Saravan (SA), Khash (KH), Iranshahr (IR), and Chabahar (CH) located in
the province Sistan and Baluchestan in the southeast of Iran. The aim of the present fieldworkbased
survey is to study how similar the vowel systems of these dialects are to the Common Balochi
vowel system (i, iː, u, uː, a, aː, eː, oː), which is represented as the vowel inventory for the
Balochi dialects in general, as well as how similar these dialects are to one another.

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