Linguistic Atlas of Chardavol: Study of Phonetic Variations and Dialectometry

Dialectometry is a statistical branch of dialectology. This sub-field of linguistics studies language variation using the methods of statistics in a geographical zone to determine the relative boundaries of dialects. This paper, using some established methods in dialectometry, tries to represent a proper distribution of language varieties in Chardavol area in Ilam province, and in addition to capture a whole picture of linguistic-geographic correlations in the area, introduces methodology of calculation of linguistic distance of some specific places. Linguistic data, gathered from 35 sites based on Swadesh list, after being combined with geographical data, have been analyzed using Gabmap software.