Sistani dialect
      
Sistani (also known as Sistanian) is a dialect continuum spoken by Sistani people mainly in Iran, Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Pakistan and Turkmenistan. It is part of the Southwestern Iranian branch of the Indo-Iranian group of Indo-European languages, and generally considered a dialect of Persian (Dari).
 Phrases 
|  English | 
 Sistani | 
 Transliteration | 
|  What's up? | 
 چکاره؟ | 
 chkāra? | 
|  Why? | 
ورچه؟ | 
 varche? | 
|  What? | 
چزه؟ | 
 cheze? | 
|  Where? | 
اگجه؟ | 
 agja? | 
|  Come in. | 
 در شو | 
 dar sho. | 
|  Are you serious? | 
 تره والله؟ | 
 tra vallā? | 
|  How many times? | 
 چن لئ؟ | 
 chen le'? | 
|  It's gonna be late. | 
 إره مئ شو | 
 e'ra me'sho. | 
|  I love you. | 
 دل مه بالئ تره | 
 del me bāle' tra. | 
|  Sistani is a good language. | 
 سیستونی گپّ زبریه | 
 sistoni gappe zabria. | 
 Comparison between Sistani and Balochi language 
|  English | 
 Sistani | 
 Balochi | 
|  dust | 
 palg | 
 polg | 
|  perfect | 
purra | 
 pura | 
|  kiss | 
pakk | 
 pakko | 
|  finger | 
chongol | 
 changol | 
|  notice | 
 sarpe' | 
 sarpad | 
|  scorpion | 
 qa'zum | 
 zum | 
|  excursion | 
 chaqal | 
 chakar | 
|  stupid | 
 ga'nok | 
 ganok | 
|  wrinkle | 
 krenj | 
 gerenchag | 
 Words
|  Sistani | 
 English equivalent | 
|  plaft | 
 withered | 
|  spest | 
alfalfa | 
|  shpul | 
whistle | 
|  kneshk | 
frown | 
|  chrokh | 
 shiny | 
|  kutru | 
 puppy | 
|  chilāsk | 
 skinny | 
|  jangara | 
 aggressive | 
|  dajg | 
 tie | 
Sources
-  "The Status of [h] and [ʔ] in the Sistani Dialect of Miyankangi". Carina Jahani, Farideh Okati, Abbas Ali Ahangar. Iranian Journal of Applied Language Studies, 1:1 (2009), pp. 80–99.
 
-  "Natural Phonological Processes in Sistani Persian of Iran". Okati, Farideh, Ahangar, Abbas Ali, Anonby, Erik, Jahani, Carina. Iranian Journal of Applied Language Studies, 2:1, (2010), pp. 93–120.
 
- Lazard, Gilbert (1974). “Morphologie du verbe dans le parler persan du Sistan”, in Studia Iranica 3.
 
See also
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