Kho'ini Dialect - Geography

Geography

Azeri Turkic has mostly replaced Xoini, however in the 1960s, the extent of the dialect was as follows:

  • Sipkamar (Persian: "Sefidkamar"): It is a village to the west of Xoin. The dialect was best preserved there. It had some 70 households in 1963. Sefidkamar has been more flourishing than Xoin. The access road is rather doubly arduous and limits communications, which may have been instrumental in the dialect's survival.
  • Xoin: Azerbaijani language is the predominant language and the indigenous dialect was fading away in 1960 and might be extinct by now. In Aruz Mâla, the northern quarter of Xoin, the dialect is somewhat better known than in Aš Mâla, the southern quarter, where almost no one knows the language any longer.
  • Sa'idabad: In its lower quarter, they speak mostly the dialect.
  • Garne: A couple of kilometers from Xoin. The people speak the dialect.
  • Sura: A village to the east of Xoin, which had some 250 inhabitants. Some knew the dialect.
  • Balubin (Persian: "Balbavin"): The dialect is spoken side by side with Turkic.
  • Halab: The language had practically disappeared, being replaced by Azerbaijani. Just one old man could remember a few sentences in 1960.

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