Historical Phonology and other Observations on Kholosi

Kholosi /xolosi/ is an underdocumented Indo-Aryan language spoken only in two villages, Kholus and Gotav, in the Hormozgan province of Iran. It is uniquely situated geographically, entirely surrounded by Iranian-family languages which it is not closely related to. The first English-language scholarly work on the language, Anonby and Bahmani [2016], investigated the Kholosi lexicon. This work presents a grammatical description of Kholosi based on elicitation in 2020 from Ahmed Etebari, a native speaker of Kholosi. Comparisons are made to the other Indo-Aryan languages.