Sorkhei language explained

Sorkhei
Also Known As:	Sorkhei-Aftari
Region:	Iran
Date:	2021
Ref:	e26
Familycolor:	Indo-European
Fam2:	Indo-Iranian
Fam3:	Iranian
Fam4:	Western Iranian
Fam5:	Semnani
Dia1:	Sorkhei
Dia2:	Aftari
Iso3:	sqo
Glotto:	sork1239
Glottorefname:	Sorkhei-Aftari

Sorkhei is a Western Iranian language. It is spoken in the village of Sorkheh in Semnan Province in northwestern Iran.^[1]

Usage

During the Iran-Iraq War, radio operators from Sorkheh used the language as a form of cryptography for tactical communications of the Iranian Armed Forces.^[2]

During the Iran nuclear negotiations, the language was used in conversations between Iranian President Hassan Rouhani and Hossein Fereydoun, his brother and aide traveling with the negotiating team. This was done to eliminate or reduce comprehensibility of the conversation by any potential eavesdroppers.^[3]

Bibliography

• Pierre Lecoq. 1989. "Les dialectes caspiens et les dialectes du nord-ouest de l'Iran," Compendium Linguarum Iranicarum. Ed. Rüdiger Schmitt. Wiesbaden: Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag. Pages 296-314.
• Habib Borjian. 2008. “The Komisenian Dialect of Aftar,” Archiv Orientální 76: 379-416.

Notes and References

1. Lecoq, pg. 297
2. https://www.mehrnews.com/news/2876629/%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%B2%D9%87%D8%A7%DB%8C-%D8%AE%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AF%D9%86%DB%8C-%D8%A7%D8%B2-%D8%B2%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%86-%D8%B3%D8%B1%DB%8C-%D8%B3%D8%B1%D8%AE%D9%87 Mehr (in Persian)
3. http://www.tabnak.ir/fa/news/521419/%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%A7%DB%8C%D8%AA-%D8%B9%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%82%DA%86%DB%8C-%D8%A7%D8%B2-%DA%AF%D9%81%D8%AA-%D9%88-%DA%AF%D9%88%DB%8C-%D8%A8%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AF%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%86-%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%AD%D8%A7%D9%86%DB%8C-%D8%A8%D9%87-%DA%AF%D9%88%DB%8C%D8%B4-%D8%B3%D8%B1%D8%AE%D9%87-%D8%A7%DB%8C-%D9%85%D8%AB%D9%84%D8%AB-%D8%AC%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%86-%D8%A8%D8%B1%D8%A7%DB%8C-%D9%85%D8%AC%D9%84%D8%B3-%D8%AE%D8%A8%D8%B1%DA%AF%D8%A7%D9%86-%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AA%D9%82%D8%A7%D8%AF-%DA%A9%DB%8C%D9%87%D8%A7%D9%86-%D8%A7%D8%B2-%D8%AA%D8%B9%D8%B7%DB%8C%D9%84%DB%8C-%D9%85%D8%AC%D9%84%D8%B3-%D8%A8%D8%AF%D9%87%DA%A9%D8%A7%D8%B1-%D9%85%DB%8C%D9%84%DB%8C%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AF%DB%8C-%D8%B7%D9%84%D8%A8%DA%A9%D8%A7%D8%B1-%D8%B4%D8%AF Tabnak (in Persian)