The phonetic structure of the Bakhtiari dialect

The proposed article is devoted to the study of the phonetic composition of the Bakhtiari dialect within the framework of the linguistic and geographical map of modern Iran. The Bakhtiari dialect is a linguistic variation of the Lur language, which belongs to the southwestern block of Iranian languages and dialects. The peculiarities of the territorial situation and the high level of linguistic deviation make it difficult to fully study all the elements of the linguistic picture of Iran. To date, only the Tehran dialect has been studied in detail, which formed the basis of the literary norm of the New Persian language. The interest that has arisen has shown that the role of the Bakhtiari dialect in the linguistic picture of Iran is poorly understood and insufficiently covered by the scientific community – today there is not even a consensus on the origin of this ethnic group, nevertheless, the regions inhabited by Lurs and Bakhtiars have great economic potential, which only reinforces the need for a more detailed study of the above dialect. The object of the study is the Luri-Bakhtiari dialect, as an integral part of the linguistic picture of modern Iran. The subject of the study is the phonetic features inherent in this dialect. In this work, methods of description and comparison were used. The phonetic features in the Bakhtiari dialect were identified by the description method, and the results obtained were compared with the literary norm of the Persian language by the comparison method. The author states that the pronunciation norm of the Bakhtiari dialect differs significantly from the Tehran pronunciation, which is considered normative. The most characteristic feature is, perhaps, the qualitative reduction of a short (unstable) sound [a] in an unstressed position and its transition to a labialized, unstable sound [o]. There is also a tendency for qualitative reduction of deaf slotted and bowed noisy sounds. Also, among the most characteristic features of the Bakhtiari dialect, one can perhaps name the more tense pronunciation of the sounds [d], [t], [k], [n] and [q], the slight palatalization of the sounds [r] before the rounded unstable vowel [o] and the more tense pronunciation of the vowels [i], [o] and [a]. Despite the fact that the pronunciation norms in Luri-Bakhtiari differ from Tehran, nevertheless, this dialect is easy to understand, so there are no special difficulties when communicating with native speakers of this language variation.