Tehrani accent

Differences between Standard Persian and Tehrani dialect

• Simplification of some internal consonant clusters:
• *Standard Persian /zd/ ↔ Tehrani /zː/. Example: دزدى /dozdi/ ↔ /dozːi/
• *Standard Persian /st/ ↔ Tehrani /sː/. Examples: دسته /dæste/ ↔ /dæsːe/; پسته /peste/ ↔ /pesːe/
• A number of vowel raising processes and diphthong loss:
• *Standard Persian /ɒːn, ɒːm/ ↔ Tehrani /uːn, uːm/. Example: بادام /bɒːdɒːm/ ↔ /bɒːduːm/
• *Standard Persian /e/ ↔ Tehrani . Examples: جگر /dʒegær/ ↔ ; شکار /ʃekɒːr/ ↔ ; کشمش /keʃmeʃ/ ↔
• *The word-final // in Classical Persian became in modern Tehrani Persian, both colloquial and standard dialects except for نه , but is preserved in the Dari dialects.
• *Standard Persian /ou̯/ ↔ Tehrani . Examples: برو /borou̯/ ↔ ; نوروز /nou̯ruːz/ ↔
• غ and ق denoted the original Arabic phonemes in Classical Persian, the voiced velar fricative and the voiceless uvular stop , respectively. In modern Tehrani Persian, there is no difference in the pronunciation of غ and ق. Both letters are pronounced as a voiced velar fricative when positioned intervocalically and unstressed, and as a voiced uvular stop otherwise. This allophony is probably influenced by Turkic languages like Azeri and Turkmen. The classic pronunciations of غ and ق are preserved in the eastern variants of Persian, as well as in the southern dialects of the modern Iranian variety. Example: دقيقه ↔ .
• -e as the 3rd person singular suffix for verbs instead of Standard Persian -ad: می‌راوه ↔ می‌راود
• Use of verbal person suffixes on nominals for the verb بودن