Caspian Languages and Linguistics

Alireza Korangy, Ph.D. is a philologist and linguist. He is the editor of Springer Handbooks in Languages and Linguistics and the International Journal of Persian Literature.

Zia Khoshsirat, Ph.D., in Linguistic Anthropology from UCLA. His research examines language ideologies, identity formation, and meaning-making processes employing interdisciplinary frameworks to study Iranian diaspora communities and the Caspian language family. As a native speaker of Gilaki, he is actively engaged in language documentation and revitalization efforts in the Caspian region. His work has been supported by multiple prestigious fellowships and grants. His latest research identifies, for the first time, an inherited passive suffix in the Gilaki dialect of Fooman (a Caspian language), tracing its diachronic development from the Middle Iranian period through historical-phonological analysis.