An Analytical Bibliography of New Iranian Languages and Dialects

This bibliography is a collection of ca. 3,600 publications on new West Iranian languages and dialects (except Persian) that have been published in Iran since the revolution of 1979. It includes works on languages and dialects, e.g., grammars, dictionaries, and articles from linguistic journals, and provides the first comprehensive account of Iranian research on the subject. In addition, it also contains works written in local idioms, e.g., dialect poems, proverbs, riddles, children's songs, etc. By collecting approximately 900 such dialect publications, together with folkloristic studies on dialect literature, this is also the first comprehensive and systematic bibliography of Iranian dialect folklore studies. The entries are presented following a genetic-geographical system that is explained in the introduction. For each entry, either an English translation of the title is added or an explanation of the publications' contents.