Sistani dialect

{{Short description|Dialect continuum of the Persian language}}

{{more footnotes|date=September 2017}}

{{Infobox language

| name = Sistani Persian

| nativename = {{lang|fa|سیستونی}}
{{Transliteration|fa|Sistuni}}

| states = Iran{{cite journal |last1=Okati |first1=Farideh |last2=Ahangar |first2=Abbas Ali |last3=Anonby |first3=Erik |last4=Jahani |first4=Carina |title=Natural Phonological Processes in Sistani Persian of Iran |journal=Iranian Journal of Applied Language Studies |date=July 2010 |volume=2 |issue=1 |page=94 |url=https://ijals.usb.ac.ir/article_63_c9d984c6c4233e658b6f5e683d5d8157.pdf |doi=10.22111/ijals.2012.63 |quote=provides an overview of natural phonological processes in the dialect of Sistani Persian spoken in Iranian Sistan, and reviews theoretical implications of these processes|access-date=26 January 2025}}

| ethnicity = Sistani Persians

| familycolor = Indo-European

| fam2 = Indo-Iranian

| fam3 = Iranic

| fam4 = Western Iranic

| fam5 = Southwestern Iranic

| fam6 = Persian

| iso3 = none

| glotto = sist1235

| glottorefname = Sistani Persian

| fam7 = Western Persian

| altname = Sistuni Persian

| pronunciation = Pārsi-e Sistāni, Pārsi-e Sistuni

| region = Sistan and Baluchestan Province{{cite journal |last1=Okati |first1=Farideh |last2=Ahangar |first2=Abbas Ali |last3=Anonby |first3=Erik |last4=Jahani |first4=Carina |title=Natural Phonological Processes in Sistani Persian of Iran |journal=Iranian Journal of Applied Language Studies |date=July 2010 |volume=2 |issue=1 |page=94 |url=https://ijals.usb.ac.ir/article_63_c9d984c6c4233e658b6f5e683d5d8157.pdf |doi=10.22111/ijals.2012.63 |quote=provides an overview of natural phonological processes in the dialect of Sistani Persian spoken in Iranian Sistan, and reviews theoretical implications of these processes|access-date=26 January 2025}}

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Sistani ({{langx|fa|سیستانی}} , also known as Sistuni ({{lang|fa|سیستونی}}) is a dialect continuum of the Persian language spoken by Sistani people in Iranian Sistan.{{cite journal |last1=Okati |first1=Farideh |last2=Ahangar |first2=Abbas Ali |last3=Anonby |first3=Erik |last4=Jahani |first4=Carina |title=Natural Phonological Processes in Sistani Persian of Iran |journal=Iranian Journal of Applied Language Studies |date=July 2010 |volume=2 |issue=1 |page=94 |url=https://ijals.usb.ac.ir/article_63_c9d984c6c4233e658b6f5e683d5d8157.pdf |doi=10.22111/ijals.2012.63 |quote=provides an overview of natural phonological processes in the dialect of Sistani Persian spoken in Iranian Sistan, and reviews theoretical implications of these processes|access-date=26 January 2025}}{{Cite book |last=Nakosteen |first=Mehdi |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WUpBAAAAYAAJ |title=The Development of Persian Education and Learning |date=1933 |publisher=Cornell University |pages=89 |language=en}} It is part of the Southwestern Iranian branch of the Indo-Iranian group of Indo-European languages.