Smirnova, L.P. Isfahan Dialect: Materials for Study (Isfahanskii govor: Materialy k izucheniiu), 1978. In Russian

Смирнова, Л.П.
Исфаханский говор: Материалы к изучению.
Москва: Наука, 1978.
97 с.; 21 см.
Тираж: 950 экз.
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Smirnova, L.P.
Isfahan Dialect: Materials for Study (Isfahanskii govor: Materialy k izucheniiu).
Moscow: Nauka (Science), 1978.
97 p.; 21 cm.
One of 950 copies.

This 1978 Moscow publication is a highly specialized and rare academic work in the field of Iranian linguistics. Published by the USSR Academy of Sciences' prestigious "Nauka" press, it presents the first systematic scholarly description of the Isfahan dialect of Persian. The work by linguist L.P. Smirnova is structured as a valuable field study, containing a grammatical sketch that compares the dialect's phonetic, grammatical, and lexical features to standard literary Persian, a collection of authentic text samples (including proverbs, conversational phrases, riddles, songs, and poems), and a dedicated glossary. With an extremely limited print run of only 950 copies, this monograph was intended exclusively for a small audience of professional linguists, philologists, and specialists in Iranian studies. It stands as a significant, niche contribution to Soviet Oriental scholarship and remains a key reference for the study of Persian dialectology.