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Persian language is not used in the same way in different geographical areas, historical periods & social contexts as other languages are. So always Persian language has had some varieties with some difference in words, sounds and grammars. Stable and unstable sub-cultures that are formed in the scope of Persian language are the most important factors to the occurrennce of  the social varieties. War front in Iran, as an example of small community, is a particular sub-culture with behavioral, written and oral dimensions,  and most significant part of it is collected in the book named "An Encyclopedia of the war front''. This descriptive  analytical article tries to present a slight part of oral culture of the war front with emphasise on  the linguistic aspect of contemporary Persian language. The most important section of oral cultures are the idioms, explanations and proper names  that many of them have been collected in the first volume of the mentioned book. As we know, the features of this language are mainly related to the vocabulary level; so in this paper, our consideration is  to  the first volume of  this book, and after a brief speech about the varieties of Persian language and common language in the culture of war front in Iran,  some examples are taken briefly

Keywords: Persian language, Sociolinguistics, Culture of war front, Iran-Iraq war, Spoken language

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