Sorkhei
Sorkhei-Aftari
Region	Iran
Native speakers	12,000 (2021)[1]
Language family	Indo-European Indo-Iranian Iranian Western Iranian Northwestern Iranian Komisenian Sorkhei-Aftari[2] Sorkhei
Dialects	Sorkhei Aftari
Language codes
ISO 639-3	sqo
Glottolog	sork1239
ELP	Sorkhei

Sorkhei is a Northwestern Iranian language. It is one of the Komisenian languages.^[3] It is spoken in the village of Sorkheh in Semnan province in northwestern Iran.^[4]

Classification

Sorkhei is a Northwestern Iranian language and belongs to the Komisenian subgroup. It is linguistically close to Sangsari, Lasgerdi and Aftari.^[5] Sorkhei also shares similar structures with Zaza, which is linguistically close to Semnani.^[6][7]

History

During the Iran-Iraq War, radio operators from Sorkheh used the language as a form of cryptography for tactical communications of the Iranian Armed Forces.^[8]

During the Iran nuclear negotiations, the language was used in conversations between Iranian President Hassan Rouhani and Hossein Fereydoun, his brother and aide traveling with the negotiating team. This was done to eliminate or reduce comprehensibility of the conversation by any potential eavesdroppers.^[9]

Notes

Bibliography

• Pierre Lecoq. 1989. "Les dialectes caspiens et les dialectes du nord-ouest de l'Iran," Compendium Linguarum Iranicarum. Ed. Rüdiger Schmitt. Wiesbaden: Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag. Pages 296–314.
• Habib Borjian. 2008. "The Komisenian Dialect of Aftar", Archiv Orientální 76: 379–416.

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