Pro­pos­als are invit­ed for con­tri­bu­tions to a spe­cial issue on“Map­ping Iran­ian Lan­guages”. We wel­come arti­cles explor­ing all top­ics relat­ed to the car­to­graph­ic rep­re­sen­ta­tion of Iran­ian lan­guages. Poten­tial top­ics include, but are not lim­it­ed to:  

• his­to­ry of map­ping Iran­ian lan­guages
• data sources for lan­guage maps
• map­ping-focused doc­u­men­ta­tion and field­work
• car­to­graph­ic tech­nolo­gies, tech­niques and inno­va­tions
• orig­i­nal analy­ses and maps of geo­graph­i­cal­ly defined lin­guis­tic data, e.g., fea­ture maps, isogloss maps, heat maps
• updat­ed and refined map­ping of lan­guage dis­tri­b­u­tion in spe­cif­ic regions
• alter­na­tive lan­guage map types, includ­ing con­cep­tu­al maps
• inter­ac­tions between lan­guage map­ping and lan­guage clas­si­fi­ca­tion
• crit­i­cal analy­sis of map­ping projects, map series, and indi­vid­ual maps

  The col­lect­ed arti­cles will encom­pass Iran­ian lan­guages in the broad­est sense, that is, both the Iran­ic (Iran­ian) lan­guage fam­i­ly, and lan­guages from oth­er fam­i­lies spo­ken in the geo­graph­ic area cov­ered by present-day Iran.   In place of Iran­ian Stud­ies’ tra­di­tion­al book review sec­tion, crit­i­cal reviews and analy­ses of lan­guage atlas projects, map series, and indi­vid­ual maps focus­ing on Iran­ian lan­guages are express­ly solicit­ed either as research reviews (250 to 1500 words), or as full-length research arti­cles or “sources uncov­ered” essays.   We antic­i­pate a spe­cial issue con­tain­ing between 6 and 15 full-length arti­cles, and 5 research reviews.   Key dates: Decem­ber 15, 2024: Poten­tial con­trib­u­tors sub­mit arti­cle abstracts/proposals. Decem­ber 30, 2024: Noti­fi­ca­tion of invi­ta­tions to con­tribute. Jan­u­ary 2026: Antic­i­pat­ed pub­li­ca­tion date.   Sub­mis­sion instruc­tions: Please sub­mit arti­cle abstracts/proposals (max. 200 words, plus any images) via email to the spe­cial issue edi­tors, Erik Anon­by (erik.anonby AT carleton.ca), Habib Bor­jian (hb146 AT columbia.edu), and Mor­taza Taheri-Ardali (taher­il­ing AT gmail.com).   Spe­cial Issue Call at Fur­ther infor­ma­tion and a detailed pub­li­ca­tion sched­ule are avail­able from the spe­cial issue edi­tors.