Tehrani accent

Tehrani Persian
Tehrani Accent, Tehrani Dialect
لهجهٔ تهرانی, گویش تهرانی
PronunciationPārsi-e Tehrāni, Pārsi-e Teruni
Early forms
Old Persian
Persian alphabet
Language codes
ISO 639-3
IETFpes-u-sd-ir07
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The Tehrani accent (Persian: لهجهٔ تهرانی), or Tehrani dialect (گویش تهرانی), is a dialect of Persian spoken in Tehran and the most common colloquial variant of the Western Persian. Compared to literary standard Persian, the Tehrani dialect lacks original Persian diphthongs and tends to fuse certain sounds. The Tehrani accent should not be confused with the Old Tehrani dialect, which was a Northwestern Iranian dialect, belonging to the central group.

Some of the words used in the Tehrani accent may derive from the northwestern Iranian language of Razi, such as sūsk "beetle; cockroach", jīrjīrak "cricket", zālzālak "haw(thorn)", and vejīn "weeding".[1]

  1. ^ Baghbidi 2016, p. 409.