Language Contact and Documentation: Contacto Linguistico y Documentacion

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V. Indo-European, Iranian:
(Northwestern Iranian)
– Tatic group:
– (Northern Tati) dialects of Kalāsur, Khoynarud, Keringān, Harzan;
(Central Tati) dialects of Kolur, Kabate-Kelās, Hezārrud, Kajal;
(Southern Tati) dialects of Eshtehārd, Chāl, Ebrāhimābād; (Tati
outliers) dialects of Vafs, Alvir, Khoin;
– (Talyshi) Northern cluster (Azerbaijan, Iran), Central cluster (Asālem,
Iran), Southern dialect cluster (Māsule-Māsāl, Iran);
– Kurdish group:
– Northern Kurdish (Kurmanji): (Turkey) Erzurum, Mush, Van, etc.;
(Iraq) Zakho, Akre; (Armenia) Yerevan Yezidi community; (Azerbaijan)
Lachin;
– Central Kurdish: (Iraq) Suleimanieh, Wārmāwa; (Iran) Mukri;
– Zazaki/Dimli (E. Turkey): northern dialect cluster, southern dialect
cluster;
– Gurani: (Iran-Iraq) Awromān, Gawraju;
(Southwestern Iranian)
– Caucasian Tat of Republic of Azerbaijan and Daghestan, Russia: (Muslim
dialects) Daghkushchu, Lahij; (Jewish dialects) Derbent (Russia),
Kuba (Azerbaijan); Christian dialects (Azerbaijan, recently relocated to
Armenia);
– Persian: Colloquial Tehrani;
VI. Northeast Caucasian (Dagestanian):
– Udi (outlier with unclear position within the Lezgic group), spoken in
two villages in Azerbaijan and one village in Georgia (having emigrated
from Azerbaijan in the 1920’s): (Azerbaijan) Vartashen, Nij; (Georgia)
Oktomberi;
– Kryz, Aghul, Tsakhur.
Eventually the Atlas will include some 60–65 languages and dialects.
2 Convergence Phenomena in the Araxes-Iran
Linguistic Area (AILA)
The AILA languages share many common features. Sentence (1) given in four
languages from three different language families, including two very different
genera of Indo-European, shows a simple, but typical, example of the type of