The Naeni dialect: The leftover dialect of ancient Iran

Dialectology is one of the applied branches of linguistic knowledge which deals with scientific, linguistic, sociological and anthropological studies aiming to collect dialects. The local dialect is the main basis and structure of the existence of every nation and race; therefore, the study and the investigation to keep the Naini dialect alive, as part of the culture, tradition, and ritual of the city of Nain, is necessary and important. The research method is descriptive and the information is collected in a library and linguistic way. The data of the research has been collected from the collection of dictionaries, proverbs and edicts and from the people’s dialect in the Nain city. The Naini dialect is one of the central dialects of Iran and a continuation of the "Midwestern Iranian" language; it has literary originality and an inseparable and fixed connection with the "Sassanid Pahlavi" language. Naini dialect is closely related to its neighbouring dialects such as Ardestani, Varzanei, Badroudi, Zafraei, Natanzi and Zoroastrians of Yazd Province. One of the results of this research is the regularity and organization of this language; So that words are not out of two cases: first, the words which have a special form in this dialect, and their roots must be extracted from the Avestan culture; and secondly, words which are derived from ordinary Persian words, and by changing the movements.