Phonological System Of Laki Dialect In Kouhdasht: A Survey

The present study investigates and explains the consonants and vowels, the syllable structure, and also the consonantal clusters in the Laki dialect of Kouhdasht. The research method is analytic–descriptive. The data in this study was collected through field study by recording the speech of speakers with an average age of 30-70 years. In addition, we have used one of the writer's linguistic intuition who is the native speaker of this dialect as well as the written sources in this connection.  The data has been transcribed according to the International Phonetic Alphabet "IPA". The results of the research indicate that the phonological system of this dialect has 27 consonants. The dialect list of vowels also consists of nine simple vowels and six compound vowels. The syllable structure in this dialect is C (C) V (C) (C). Also, in this dialect, there are no more than two consonant clusters, either at the beginning or at the end of the syllable. The research results show that in the mentioned dialect in syllable structures with one consonant in their onset, the consonants /L, ŋ, r/ cannot occur at the onset of a syllable, and in syllable constructions with two consonants at the beginning, the second consonant can only be /w/ or /y/ and no other consonant can be.