Khunsari language

{{Short description|Indo-Iranian language}}

{{Infobox language

|name=Khansari

|nativename=Khusaari

|states=Iran

|speakers={{sigfig|21100|2}}

|date=2000

|ref=e18

|familycolor=Indo-European

|fam2=Indo-Iranian

|fam3=Iranian

|fam4=Western

|fam5=Northwestern II

|fam6=Central Iranian Languages

|fam7=Northwestern

|iso3=kfm

|glotto=khun1255

|glottorefname=Khunsaric

}}

Khunsari dialect ({{langx|fa|گویش خوانساری}}) is a Central dialect within the Northwestern Iranian languages, spoken in Khansar, a town in the west of Isfahan province of Iran. Some of the oldest isoglosses include the development of Aryan palatals to fricatives: OIr. *dz > z: {{Transliteration|kfm|mossar}} "big", {{Transliteration|kfm|kissar}} "small", {{Transliteration|kfm|heze}} "yesterday", {{Transliteration|kfm|zun}}- "know", {{Transliteration|kfm|zumā}} "son-in-law" (but {{Transliteration|kfm|yešt}} "ugly" < SW *a-dushta-, cf. NPers. {{Transliteration|kfm|zesht}} < NW *a-zushta- "unloved"); *tsw > sp: {{Transliteration|kfm|isba}}, {{Transliteration|kfm|espa}} "dog" (< Median {{Transliteration|kfm|spaka}}-), {{Transliteration|kfm|espid}} "white", {{Transliteration|kfm|ešpiž}} "louse".