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==Middle Persian== | ==Middle Persian== | ||
One Middle Persian dialect in Lõis has /ɭd/ from PIIr *rd, instead of /l/ as in other dialects: guḷd- | One Middle Persian dialect in Lõis has /ɭd/ from PIIr *rd, instead of /l/ as in other dialects: guḷd-i-ḷdāḷd "red rose". The Persian language spoken in Newton descends from this dialect, and as in Northern Sanskrit, ḷd reflexes as /ð/: /guð ðoð/. | ||
Middle Persian in Lõis has the phonological innovations associated with Modern Persian in our timeline, like some words have w -> b. (read: it's basically Modern Persian minus the Arabic vocab, and with conservative vowels/contrastive vowel length) | Middle Persian in Lõis has the phonological innovations associated with Modern Persian in our timeline, like some words have w -> b. (read: it's basically Modern Persian minus the Arabic vocab, and with conservative vowels/contrastive vowel length) | ||
==Persian dialects== | |||
The most commonly spoken descendant of Middle Persian in Lõis is part of the Levantine sprachbund. | |||
Phonology: a ā i ī u ū ai au -> a o e i u ø əi əu | |||
Plurals usually are formed with the ending -o (from Middle Persian -ān, from Old Persian -ānām), but loanwords as in our timeline can be pluralized as in the source languages. The most common source of loanwords is Bactrian, followed by Greek, Togarmite and English. | |||
The verbal system of Lõisian Persian is similar to our timeline's Tajik, it uses the auxiliary ''stodan'' (to stand) for the present progressive, unlike other Levantine sprachbund languages. | |||