Afshar language
| Afshar | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Turkey, Iran, Syria, Afghanistan |
| Ethnicity | Afshar people |
Native speakers | about 600,000 (date missing) |
| Perso-Arabic script, Latin script | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | (included in azb) |
| Glottolog |
afsh1238[1] |
Afshar or Afshari, also known as "Afshar Azerbaijani" is a Turkic language spoken in Turkey, Iran, Syria, and parts of Afghanistan by the Afshar people. Ethnologue lists it as a dialect of South Azerbaijani language.
Afshar is distinguished by a large number of loanwords from Persian and a rounding of the phoneme /a/ to [ɒ], as occurred in Uzbek. In many cases, vowels that are rounded in Azerbaijani are not rounded in Afshar. An example of this is /jiz/ (meaning 100), which is /jyz/ in standard Azerbaijani.
See also
Literature
- Doerfer, Gerhard; Hesche, Wolfram (1989). Südoghusische Materialen aus Afghanistan und Iran. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz. ISBN 3-447-02786-X.
References
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Afshari". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
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| Varieties of Arabic | |
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