Sistani dialect

Sistani Persian
Sistani Persian
Sistuni Persian
سیستونی; Sistuni
Pronunciation	Pārsi-e Sistāni, Pārsi-e Sistuni
Native to	Iran and Afghanistan
Region	Sistan and Baluchestan Province, Nimruz Province
Ethnicity	Sistani Persians
Language family	Indo-European Indo-Iranian Iranic Western Iranic Southwestern Iranic Persian Western Persian Sistani Persian; ; ; ; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	None (mis)
Glottolog	sist1235

Sistani (Persian: سیستانی , also known as Sistuni (سیستونی) is a dialect continuum of the Persian language spoken by Sistani people in Iran and Afghanistan.^[1] It is part of the Southwestern Iranian branch of the Indo-Iranian group of Indo-European languages.

Sistani Phrases

English	Sistani	Transliteration
What's up?	چکاره؟	chkāra?
Why?	ورچه؟	varche?
What?	چزه؟	cheze?
Where?	اگجه؟	agja?
Come in.	در شو	dar sho.
Are you serious? (literally "Do you swear to God?")	تره والله؟	tra vallā?
How many times?	چن لئ؟	chen le'?
It's gonna be late.	إره مئ شو	e'ra me'sho.
I love you.	دل مه بالئ تره	del me bāle' tra.
Sistani is a good language.	سیستونی گپّ زبریه	sistoni gappe zabria.

^ Nakosteen, Mehdi (1933). The Development of Persian Education and Learning. Cornell University. p. 89.

"The Status of [h] and [ʔ] in the Sistani Dialect of Miyankangi". Carina Jahani, Farideh Okati, Abbas Ali Ahangar. Iranian Journal of Applied Language Studies, 1:1 (2009), pp. 80–99.
"Natural Phonological Processes in Sistani Persian of Iran". Okati, Farideh, Ahangar, Abbas Ali, Anonby, Erik, Jahani, Carina. Iranian Journal of Applied Language Studies, 2:1, (2010), pp. 93–120.
Lazard, Gilbert (1974). “Morphologie du verbe dans le parler persan du Sistan”, in Studia Iranica 3.

Sistani Persian
Sistuni Persian
سیستونی Sistuni
Pronunciation	Pārsi-e Sistāni, Pārsi-e Sistuni
Native to	Iran and Afghanistan
Region	Sistan and Baluchestan Province, Nimruz Province
Ethnicity	Sistani Persians
Language family	Indo-European Indo-Iranian Iranic Western Iranic Southwestern Iranic Persian Western Persian Sistani Persian
Language codes
ISO 639-3	None (`mis`)
Glottolog	`sist1235`