Kuhmareyi language

Kuhmareyi is one of the languages of southwestern Fars. It is a cluster of disparate dialects; the one illustrated here is the Davani dialect (Davani: devani;, transliteration: Davāni) of the village of Davan, 12 kilometers north of Kazerun city in southern Iran. Davani had an estimated 1,000 speakers in 2004.

Phonology
The transcription used here is only an approximation.

Vowels
short: a, e, i, o, u long: â, ā, ē, ī, ō, ū

Consonants

 * voiced dental fricative: ð, generally after vowels, like in, 'bað' (bad).
 * voiced velar fricative: γ, like in "γal'ati" (shroud).
 * alveolar trill: like in 'borrâ' (flail).
 * palatalization: inclination for 'g' and 'k' before front vowels, like in 'bega' (say).
 * voiceless alveolar affricate: ts, like in ' ts e' (what), and voiced dz , like in an dz i (fig).

Verbs
Davani is ergative in past transitive constructions. For example (Persian transliterations are in UniPers):

English: Hasan saw Ali in the garden. Persian: Hasan,     Ali-râ tuye bâq did. Davani: hasan -eš   ali -a   tu    bâγ di.

Infinitive markers include -san, -tan, -dan, -ðan.

Nouns
The suffix -aku makes nouns definite. For example:

bard "stone" → bard-aku "the stone"

The plural is marked by the suffix -gal. -u is exceptionally used for "man". For example:

sēv "apple" → sēv-gal "apples" merd "man" → merd-u "men"