Carina Jahani
Professor in Iranian Languages at Department of Linguistics and Philology
- Telephone:
- +46 18 471 78 69
- E-mail:
- carina.jahani@lingfil.uu.se
- Visiting address:
- Engelska parken
Thunbergsvägen 3H - Postal address:
- Box 527
751 20 UPPSALA - Available:
- Tis 13-14, tors 13-14
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Keywords
- human rights
- persian
- sustainable development
- iranian languages
- balochi
- language documentation
- language revitalisation

Publications
Recent publications
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Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis, 2026
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Balochi: Literary Development, Status and Vitality
Part of Iranian and Minority Languages at Home and in Diaspora, p. 65-87, Mouton de Gruyter, 2023
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Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis, 2022
- DOI for Unheard Voices: Twenty-one short stories in Balochi with English translations. Collected and edited by Carina Jahani, Nagoman Baloch and Taj Baloch
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Oral Narration in Iranian Cultures
2022
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Strategies for Clause-combining in Oral and Written Balochi Narratives
Part of Oral Narration in Iranian Cultures, p. 151-162, Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag, 2022
All publications
Articles in journal
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Synchronically unexpected /n/ in the Balochi dialect of Iranshahr
Part of Orientalia Suecana, p. 20-30, 2019
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Diphthongization in Five Iranian Balochi Dialects
Part of Orientalia Suecana, p. 107-119, 2013
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The Balochi Language and Languages in Iranian Balochistan
Part of The Journal of the Middle East and Africa, p. 153-167, 2013
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Part of Orientalia Suecana, p. 121-125, 2013
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The Distribution and Role of the Verb Clitic =a/a=in Different Balochi Dialects
Part of Orientalia Suecana, p. 170-186, 2013
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Impersonal Constructions — A Brief Introduction
Part of Orientalia Suecana, p. 119-121, 2010
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Natural Phonological Processes in Sistani Persian of Iran
Part of Iranian Journal of Applied Language Studies, p. 93-120, 2010
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Impersonal Constructions In Balochi
Part of Orientalia Suecana, p. 169-181, 2010
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Impersonal Constructions in Balochi
Part of Orientalia Suecana, p. 168-181, 2010
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Fronting of /u/ in Iranian Sistani
Part of Orientalia Suecana, p. 120-131, 2009
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The Status of [h] and [ʔ] in the Sistani Dialect of Miyankangi
Part of Iranian Journal of Applied Language Studies, p. 80-999, 2009
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Fronting of the voiceless velar plosive in Persian
Part of Orientalia Suecana, p. 81-89, 2008
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Language attitudes and language maintenance among Iranian immigrants in Sweden
Part of Orientalia Suecana, p. 93-111, 2004
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Bilingualism in Sweden: The example of a Swedish-Iranian family
Part of Orientalia Suecana, p. 235-256, 2003
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Restrictive Relative Clauses in Classical and Modern New Persian and the Marking of the Antecedent
Part of Orientalia Suecana, p. 33-56, 2001
Articles, review/survey
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Part of Encyclopædia Iranica, 2015
Books
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Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis, 2026
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Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis, 2022
- DOI for Unheard Voices: Twenty-one short stories in Balochi with English translations. Collected and edited by Carina Jahani, Nagoman Baloch and Taj Baloch
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A Grammar of Modern Standard Balochi
Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis, 2019
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Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis, 2018
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Uppsala University, 2016
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Koroshi: A Corpus-based Grammatical Description
Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis, 2015
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Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis, 2013
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Möten med balocher: Varje människa är ett epos
Bokförlaget Tranan, 2013
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A study of Persian discourse structure
Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis, 2009
Chapters in book
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Balochi: Literary Development, Status and Vitality
Part of Iranian and Minority Languages at Home and in Diaspora, p. 65-87, Mouton de Gruyter, 2023
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Strategies for Clause-combining in Oral and Written Balochi Narratives
Part of Oral Narration in Iranian Cultures, p. 151-162, Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag, 2022
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The Balochi Language as a Garden. An Attempt to Create a Standard for Written Balochi
Part of Iranian Studies in Honour of Adriano V. Rossi, Part 1, p. 411-435, Università degli Studi di Napoli “L’Orientale”, 2019
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Part of The World's Major Languages, 3rd ed., p. 455-469, Routledge, 2018
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To bring the distant near: On deixis in Iranian oral literature
Part of Trends in Iranian and Persian linguistics, p. 309-338, Mouton de Gruyter, 2018
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Part of Handbuch der Iranistik, Band 2, p. 355-363, Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag, 2017
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Prospectivity in Persian and Balochi and the preterite for non-past events
Part of Prospective and Proximative in Turkic, Iranian and beyond, p. 261-275, Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag, 2017
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Complex predicates and the issue of transitivity: The case of Southern Balochi
Part of From Aṣl to Zā’id, p. 79-105, The Avicenna Institute of Middle Eastern Studies, 2015
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The Baloch as an Ethnic Group in the Persian Gulf Region
Part of The Persian Gulf in Modern Times, p. 267-297, Palgrave Macmillan, 2014
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Non-canonical Subjects in Balochi
Part of Iranian Languages and Culture, p. 196-218, Mazda Publishers, 2012
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A Folktale in Koroshi Dedicated to Joy Edelman
Part of Leksika, Etimologiya, Jazykovye Kontatky, p. 62-70, Russian Academy of Sciences, 2011
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Is there an "urban mind" in Balochi Literature?
Part of The Urban Mind, p. 457-470, Department of Archaeology and Ancient History, Uppsala University, 2010
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Part of The Iranian languages, p. 634-692, Routledge, 2009
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Expressions of future in classical and modern new Persian
Part of Aspects of Iranian Linguistics, p. 153-175, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2008
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Part of The Baloch and others, p. 139-166, Reichert, 2008
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Balochernas vandring och språkets förvandling
Part of Vandring & förvandling, p. 77-85, 2006
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De "ohördas" röst: Folksagans roll för att låta de svagaste i samhället komma till tals
Part of Saga och Sanning, p. 105-119, Uppsala universitet, 2004
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Part of Facts about the World's languages, 2001
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Expressions of indirectivity in spoken Modern Persian
Part of Evidentials, p. 499, Mouton de Gruyter, Berlin - New York, 2000
Collections (editor)
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Iran. 4 000 år av historia, konst, religion, litteratur och språk
Uppsala universitet, 2014
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Orientalia Suecana Vol LXI (2012)
Department of Linguistics and Philology, Uppsala University, 2013
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Orientalia Suecana: Vol. LX (2011)
Uppsala universitet, 2012
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Orientalia Suecana Vol. LXI (2012): Supplement
Institutionen för Lingvistik och Filologi, 2012
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Orientalia Suecana: Vol. 59 (2010)
Department of Linguistics and Philology, Uppsala University, 2010
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Orientalia Suecana: Vol. 58 (2009)
Department of linguistics and philology, Uppsala universitet, 2009
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Manuscript, Text and Literature. Author: Bo Utas: Collected Essays on Middle and New Persian Texts.
Reichert Verlag, 2008
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Reichert Verlag, 2008
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Department of Asian and African Languages, Uppsala University, 2003
Conference papers
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Grammaticalisation in the verb system in Iranian languages
2015
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On the Definite Marker in Modern Spoken Persian
2015
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A Persian Treebank with Stanford Typed Dependencies
Part of Proceedings of Language Resources and Evaluation, p. 796-801, 2014
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Complex Predicates and the Issue of Transitivity: The case of Southern Balochi
2014
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Differences between oral and written narratives in Persian in the encoding of S2 references
2013
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Simple past for immediate future in some Iranian languages
2013
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The Glottal Plosive: A Phoneme in Spoken Modern Persian or Not?
Part of Linguistic Convergence and Areal Diffusion, p. 373, 2005
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State control and its impact on language in Balochistan
Part of The Role of the State in West Asia, p. 191, 2005
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The Case System in Iranian Balochi in a Contact Linguistic Perspective
Part of The Baloch and Their Neighbours, p. 380, 2003
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Language Attitudes and Language Maintenance among Iranian Baloch in Sweden
Part of Language in Society, p. 132, 2000
Conference proceedings (editor)
Monograph doctoral thesis
Reports
Other
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Elfenbein, Josef, An Anthology of Classical and Modern Balochi Literature
Part of Orientalia Suecana, p. 277-279, 1991