Somayeh Gholami
Biographic Data
| ID | 228494 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Somayeh Gholami |
| GIVEN NAMES | Somayeh |
| FAMILY NAME | Gholami |
| SIGNATURE | GHOLAMI S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Goethe University Frankfurt |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6548-0282 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Analytical Comparative Etymological Dictionary of Reduplication in the Major Languages of the Middle East and Iran, by Dariush Borbor
Linguistic Insights from a Historical Bilingual Letter: The Malati Dialect of Zoroastrian Dari (Behdīnī) in Yazd
In the first part of this study (Gholami/Pouladi 2023), we provided a detailed linguistic analysis of a rare written text of Zoroastrian Dari (Behdīnī), preserved in a bilingual letter in the Perso-Arabic script. The analysis dealt with phonological, morphological, and syntactic aspects of the bilingual text, with a particular focus on the challenge of representing the phonetic distinctions of Zoroastrian Dari in a script not originally designed …
Judeo-Yazdi in Historical Perspective: A Comparative Examination with Zoroastrian Dari in Yazd
In Yazd, the Jewish and Zoroastrian communities speak languages that belong to the Central Dialects of Iranian, while the Muslim majority speaks Yazdi Persian. This divergence raises two pivotal questions: Why do the languages of Yazd’s minorities differ from the majority language, and what insights do they offer into their origins and, possibly, the city’s earlier vernacular? Drawing on the speech of the last speaker of Judeo-Yazdi in 2017 and o…
A quasi-experimental study to assess the impact of green gardens on elderly anxiety: A socio-ecological perspective
By 2050, it's projected that the elderly population will make up approximately 14% of the global populace. United Nations forecasts indicate a notable increase in the average age of Iran's population, expected to rise from 29.5%–49.4% by 2100, presenting significant societal and environmental challenges for the future. Given this demographic shift, addressing the implications of an aging population in Iran is paramount, underscoring the necessity…
The Zoroastrian Manuscripts of the Rostam Jāmāsb’s Family and a New Dating of Videvdād 4100
The manuscripts of two sons of Rostam Jāmāsb, Tīrān and Šahrām, are thematized in various works, including Mazdapour, Andrés-Toledo and Cantera, Boroumand Amin, Cantera, Martínez-Porro. One of the important manuscripts of this family is Videvdād 4100. Previous scholarship indicates that this manuscript was copied in 1871 AD . This date has been used as a basis for further orthographical and palaeographical analysis of this family’s manuscripts an…
Linguistic Insights from a Bilingual Letter: The Malati Dialect of Zoroastrian Dari in Yazd
This article presents a comprehensive analysis of a rare written example of Zoroastrian Dari (Behdini), a traditionally spoken language, featured in a bilingual letter composed in the Perso-Arabic script. The linguistic evidence indicates that the dialect of this letter is the Malati dialect of Zoroastrian Dari, primarily spoken in the Priests’ quarter of Yazd. The article provides a detailed examination of the phonological, morphological, and sy…
Unpacking the Complexity of Gurān Identity: An Interdisciplinary Analysis of Historical and Cultural Sources
This study aims to explore the complexity of the term Gurān and how its meaning has evolved over time. The research poses several research questions, including the historical and cultural context of the term, different perspectives on whether Gurān people should be considered a distinct ethnic group or part of the larger Kurdish population, and the role of the term in shaping social, cultural, and political dynamics among different social groups.…
A Corpus-Based Study of Alignment in Literary Gorani (Based on the Manuscript 11092 of Dīwān-i Mawlawī)
This paper examines alignment in Literary Gorani by analysing an unknown Gorani manuscript titled ‘Dīwān-i Mawlawī’ (Manuscript 11092), which is housed at the Āstān-e Qods-e Raḍavī library. The paper has two main objectives. Following Haig (2017) regarding the extent of the micro-variation of ergativity within Iranian languages, the paper explores strategies of interrelated subsystems such as case, indexation, verbal suffixes, and pronominal clit…
Lutz Rzehak, Bidollah Aswar. Dari-Persisch. Lehr- und Übungsbuch mit Lösungen, Audio- und Videomaterial
Dari is a term for the standard variety of the Persian language that is spoken in Afghanistan. In 1964, the Afghan government officially named the language Dari (literally ‘language of the court’) to differentiate it from the Persian varieties spoken in Tajikistan and Iran. In addition to Pashto, Dari Persian is an official language in Afghanistan and the lingua franca of various ethnic groups. It is also the language that is used by the Persian-…
On the terminology designating the Zoroastrians of Iran and their language
This paper* examines how Zoroastrians designate themselves (internal/self-designations), and how they are designated by others (external designations). Focusing on the termGabr/Gavras the external denotation for Zoroastrians and the termGabrī/Gavrūnīas the designation for their language, it argues that these terms, once common in Western scholarship as well as among non-Zoroastrian Iranians, have become obsolete due to their pejorative undertones…
Judeo-Hamadani: The Language of Jews in Hamadan and Its Origins
The study of the language of religious minorities in Iran is particularly important for understanding the historical development and typology of Iranian languages. Historical and linguistic evidence substantiates the idea that Zoroastrians and Jews in cities in central and western Iran preserved their former vernacular language, whereas the majority of the population replaced it with Persian in the New Iranian period. This paper focuses on the la…
Endangered Iranian Languages: Language Contact and Language Islands in Iran
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Colophons and Marginal Notes of the Avestan Manuscripts of the Pouladi’s Collection in Yazd
About 150 years ago, after Avestan researchers such as Jackson, Browne, and Westergaard had unsuccessfully attempted to discover new manuscripts in Iran, it was assumed that there were few or no Avestan manuscripts remaining in Iran. However, recent research and fieldwork in Iran have resulted in important findings disproving this assumption. Since 2011, more than eighty-five Avestan manuscripts have been discovered in Iran. One of these importan…
Remnants of Zoroastrian Dari in the Colophons and Sālmargs of Iranian Avestan Manuscripts
Zoroastrian Dari, also known as Behdini or Gavruni, is an endangered Iranian language spoken by the Zoroastrian minority who mostly live in Yazd and the surrounding areas as well as in Kerman and Tehran. Zoroastrian Dari is a unique Iranian language on account of its historical background and large number of subdialects. This language is only a spoken language and not a written one, but it seems that remnants of this language are attested in the …
Remnants of Zoroastrian Dari in the Colophons and Sālmargs of Iranian Avestan Manuscripts
Zoroastrian Dari, also known as Behdini or Gavruni, is an endangered Iranian language spoken by the Zoroastrian minority who mostly live in Yazd and the surrounding areas as well as in Kerman and Tehran. Zoroastrian Dari is a unique Iranian language on account of its historical background and large number of subdialects. This language is only a spoken language and not a written one, but it seems that remnants of this language are attested in the …
On the terminology designating the Zoroastrians of Iran and their language
This paper* examines how Zoroastrians designate themselves (internal/self-designations), and how they are designated by others (external designations). Focusing on the termGabr/Gavras the external denotation for Zoroastrians and the termGabrī/Gavrūnīas the designation for their language, it argues that these terms, once common in Western scholarship as well as among non-Zoroastrian Iranians, have become obsolete due to their pejorative undertones…
Judeo-Hamadani: The Language of Jews in Hamadan and Its Origins
The study of the language of religious minorities in Iran is particularly important for understanding the historical development and typology of Iranian languages. Historical and linguistic evidence substantiates the idea that Zoroastrians and Jews in cities in central and western Iran preserved their former vernacular language, whereas the majority of the population replaced it with Persian in the New Iranian period. This paper focuses on the la…
Colophons and Marginal Notes of the Avestan Manuscripts of the Pouladi’s Collection in Yazd
About 150 years ago, after Avestan researchers such as Jackson, Browne, and Westergaard had unsuccessfully attempted to discover new manuscripts in Iran, it was assumed that there were few or no Avestan manuscripts remaining in Iran. However, recent research and fieldwork in Iran have resulted in important findings disproving this assumption. Since 2011, more than eighty-five Avestan manuscripts have been discovered in Iran. One of these importan…
Remnants of Zoroastrian Dari in the Colophons and Sālmargs of Iranian Avestan Manuscripts
Zoroastrian Dari, also known as Behdini or Gavruni, is an endangered Iranian language spoken by the Zoroastrian minority who mostly live in Yazd and the surrounding areas as well as in Kerman and Tehran. Zoroastrian Dari is a unique Iranian language on account of its historical background and large number of subdialects. This language is only a spoken language and not a written one, but it seems that remnants of this language are attested in the …
Colophons and Marginal Notes of the Avestan Manuscripts of the Pouladi’s Collection in Yazd
About 150 years ago, after Avestan researchers such as Jackson, Browne, and Westergaard had unsuccessfully attempted to discover new manuscripts in Iran, it was assumed that there were few or no Avestan manuscripts remaining in Iran. However, recent research and fieldwork in Iran have resulted in important findings disproving this assumption. Since 2011, more than eighty-five Avestan manuscripts have been discovered in Iran. One of these importan…
Endangered Iranian Languages: Language Contact and Language Islands in Iran
An abstract is not available for this content. As you have access to this content, full HTML content is provided on this page. A PDF of this content is also available in through the ‘Save PDF’ action button
Judeo-Hamadani: The Language of Jews in Hamadan and Its Origins
The study of the language of religious minorities in Iran is particularly important for understanding the historical development and typology of Iranian languages. Historical and linguistic evidence substantiates the idea that Zoroastrians and Jews in cities in central and western Iran preserved their former vernacular language, whereas the majority of the population replaced it with Persian in the New Iranian period. This paper focuses on the la…
Lutz Rzehak, Bidollah Aswar. Dari-Persisch. Lehr- und Übungsbuch mit Lösungen, Audio- und Videomaterial
Dari is a term for the standard variety of the Persian language that is spoken in Afghanistan. In 1964, the Afghan government officially named the language Dari (literally ‘language of the court’) to differentiate it from the Persian varieties spoken in Tajikistan and Iran. In addition to Pashto, Dari Persian is an official language in Afghanistan and the lingua franca of various ethnic groups. It is also the language that is used by the Persian-…
On the terminology designating the Zoroastrians of Iran and their language
This paper* examines how Zoroastrians designate themselves (internal/self-designations), and how they are designated by others (external designations). Focusing on the termGabr/Gavras the external denotation for Zoroastrians and the termGabrī/Gavrūnīas the designation for their language, it argues that these terms, once common in Western scholarship as well as among non-Zoroastrian Iranians, have become obsolete due to their pejorative undertones…
Unpacking the Complexity of Gurān Identity: An Interdisciplinary Analysis of Historical and Cultural Sources
This study aims to explore the complexity of the term Gurān and how its meaning has evolved over time. The research poses several research questions, including the historical and cultural context of the term, different perspectives on whether Gurān people should be considered a distinct ethnic group or part of the larger Kurdish population, and the role of the term in shaping social, cultural, and political dynamics among different social groups.…
A Corpus-Based Study of Alignment in Literary Gorani (Based on the Manuscript 11092 of Dīwān-i Mawlawī)
This paper examines alignment in Literary Gorani by analysing an unknown Gorani manuscript titled ‘Dīwān-i Mawlawī’ (Manuscript 11092), which is housed at the Āstān-e Qods-e Raḍavī library. The paper has two main objectives. Following Haig (2017) regarding the extent of the micro-variation of ergativity within Iranian languages, the paper explores strategies of interrelated subsystems such as case, indexation, verbal suffixes, and pronominal clit…
The Zoroastrian Manuscripts of the Rostam Jāmāsb’s Family and a New Dating of Videvdād 4100
The manuscripts of two sons of Rostam Jāmāsb, Tīrān and Šahrām, are thematized in various works, including Mazdapour, Andrés-Toledo and Cantera, Boroumand Amin, Cantera, Martínez-Porro. One of the important manuscripts of this family is Videvdād 4100. Previous scholarship indicates that this manuscript was copied in 1871 AD . This date has been used as a basis for further orthographical and palaeographical analysis of this family’s manuscripts an…
Linguistic Insights from a Bilingual Letter: The Malati Dialect of Zoroastrian Dari in Yazd
This article presents a comprehensive analysis of a rare written example of Zoroastrian Dari (Behdini), a traditionally spoken language, featured in a bilingual letter composed in the Perso-Arabic script. The linguistic evidence indicates that the dialect of this letter is the Malati dialect of Zoroastrian Dari, primarily spoken in the Priests’ quarter of Yazd. The article provides a detailed examination of the phonological, morphological, and sy…
Linguistic Insights from a Historical Bilingual Letter: The Malati Dialect of Zoroastrian Dari (Behdīnī) in Yazd
In the first part of this study (Gholami/Pouladi 2023), we provided a detailed linguistic analysis of a rare written text of Zoroastrian Dari (Behdīnī), preserved in a bilingual letter in the Perso-Arabic script. The analysis dealt with phonological, morphological, and syntactic aspects of the bilingual text, with a particular focus on the challenge of representing the phonetic distinctions of Zoroastrian Dari in a script not originally designed …
Judeo-Yazdi in Historical Perspective: A Comparative Examination with Zoroastrian Dari in Yazd
In Yazd, the Jewish and Zoroastrian communities speak languages that belong to the Central Dialects of Iranian, while the Muslim majority speaks Yazdi Persian. This divergence raises two pivotal questions: Why do the languages of Yazd’s minorities differ from the majority language, and what insights do they offer into their origins and, possibly, the city’s earlier vernacular? Drawing on the speech of the last speaker of Judeo-Yazdi in 2017 and o…
A quasi-experimental study to assess the impact of green gardens on elderly anxiety: A socio-ecological perspective
By 2050, it's projected that the elderly population will make up approximately 14% of the global populace. United Nations forecasts indicate a notable increase in the average age of Iran's population, expected to rise from 29.5%–49.4% by 2100, presenting significant societal and environmental challenges for the future. Given this demographic shift, addressing the implications of an aging population in Iran is paramount, underscoring the necessity…
Analytical Comparative Etymological Dictionary of Reduplication in the Major Languages of the Middle East and Iran, by Dariush Borbor
History (8 works) · History (7 works) · Linguistics (7 works) · Linguistics and language evolution (7 works) · Linguistics and Cultural Studies (6 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Zoroastrianism (6 works) · Archaeology (5 works) · Eurasian Exchange Networks (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works)