Dialects and Accents of Iran
The archive provides:
In a small number of cases, you will also find a narrow phonetic transcription of the sample (see Phonetic Transcriptions for a complete list).
The recordings average four minutes in length and feature both the reading of one of two standard passages, and some unscripted speech. The two passages, Comma Gets a Cure (currently our standard passage), and The Rainbow Passage (used in our earliest recordings), may be accessed from the menu bar to your right.
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If you are interested in specific information about Iran, please go to Yahoo's website at dir.yahoo.com/Regional/Countries/Iran/
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Dialect Samples
To properly play a sound sample, you may first need to save it to your own computer. To display the various 'save' options, PC users should right-click on the desired sample below; Mac users should press the Control key while clicking. A high-speed connection to the Internet may allow you to play the file simply by clicking it once or twice.| Sound Sample | Basic Information | Text Files |
|---|---|---|
| Iran One | Male, born 1950 and raised in Ahwaz | Iran One |
| Iran Two | Male, born 1959 and raised in Tehran | Iran Two Transcription |
| Iran Three | Female, born 1957 and raised in Tehran | Iran Three Transcription |
| Iran Four | Female, born 1973 and raised in Shiraz | Iran Four |
| Iran Five | Male, born 1967 and raised in Shiraz | Iran Five Transcription |
| Iran Six | Male, born 1954 and raised in Shiraz | Iran Six Transcription |
| Iran Seven | Male, born 1957 and raised in Tehran | Iran Seven Transcription |
| Iran Eight | Female, born 1957 and raised in Tehran | Iran Eight Transcription |
| Iran Nine | Female, born 1953 and raised in Tehran | Iran Nine Transcription |
| Iran Ten | Female, born 1968 and raised in Tehran | Iran Ten Transcription |
| Iran Eleven | Female, born 1966, Persian-Armenian | Iran Eleven |
| Iran Twelve | Female, born 1962, Tehran, Persian-Armenian | Iran Twelve |