This study is an investigation of specialized knowledge of birds (bāhendayal) among speakers of the Mamasani dialect of Southern Luri (SL), an Indo-European language with approximately one million speakers in southwestern Iran. The author provides a description of bird physiology and an inventory of cognitive distinctions that speakers use to differentiate bird types. A comprehensive taxonomy of bird knowledge in Southern Luri is presented in a diagram of bird families followed by a semantically organized list of the 84 terms for bird types found in the language, along with the meanings of these terms. Farsi, English, and scientific labels accompany descriptive notes.
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1 March 2006
BĀHENDAYAL: BIRD CLASSIFICATION IN SOUTHERN LURI (IRAN)
ERIK JOHN ANONBY
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ethnobiology
ethno-ornithology
Iran
Luri
taxonomy