Dr. Erik Anonby & Hassan Mohebbi Bahmani,
Carleton University, Universität Bamberg & Islamic Azad University, Minab Branch, Canada & Iran
The Rudoni dialect is spoken in the Rudān District (shahrestān) of Hormozgān Province, southern Iran, in the area to the north of Mināb District and a hundred kilometres west of the provincial capital, Bandar Abbas. Rudoni is not well-known, but it is mentioned by Pelevin (2002), who lists it as one of a number of Southwestern Iranian dialects encircling the Bandari dialect of Bandar Abbas: those of Menujān, Mināb, Rudān, HājiĀbād, Bandar Lengeh, and the islands of Kish, Qeshm and Hormoz. Pelevin views all of these dialects as closely related and states that together with Bandari, they constitute a distinct subgroup of the dialects of Hormozgān Province. This paper presents results from an initial dialectological study of Rudoni, conducted in the town of Berentinin the south portion of Rudān District. The data, which are primarily lexical and phonological, show that Rudoni does indeed share many traits with other Iranian languages of south-west Iran, and other dialects of the Bandari Group in particular. However, our findings also suggest that Rudoni is transitional to language varieties to the north, east and south – Kahnuji, Balochi andBashkardi– and that it exhibits some distinctive structures of its own.
The above abstract is a part of the article which was accepted at The International Conference on Current Issues of Languages, Dialects and Linguistics (WWW.LLLD.IR), 2-3 February 2017, Iran-Ahwaz.
