Social:Afshar dialect
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Short description: Turkic variety spoken mainly in Iran
| Afshar | |
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| افشر, Əfşar | |
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| Native to | Turkey, Iran, Syria, Afghanistan |
| Ethnicity | Afshar people |
Native speakers | More than 6 million[1] |
Turkic
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| Perso-Arabic script, Latin script | |
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| ISO 639-3 | (included in Template:ISO 639 [azb]) |
| Glottolog | afsh1238[3] |
Afshar or Afshari (Azerbaijani: Əfşar dialekti) is a Turkic dialect spoken in Turkey, Iran, Syria, and parts of Afghanistan by the Afshars. Ethnologue and Glottolog list it as a dialect of the South Azerbaijani language.[4][5] The Encyclopædia Iranica lists it as a separate Southern Oghuz language.[6]
According to the third edition of the Encyclopaedia of Islam:[7]
Linguistically, Afshārī is classified as a dialect belonging to the South Oghuz group of Turkic languages (southwestern branch of Turkic) (Johanson, History of Turkic, 82–3), or else as a dialect of South Azerbaijani (Azeri). As they were embedded in a Fārsī-speaking environment, however, in many cases Fārsī became the mother tongue of the Afshārs. Other groups became bilingual (as in Kirmān). Additionally, the contact between the different languages seems to have transformed the original dialect (cf. Johanson, Discoveries, 14–6). In 2009 a linguistic comparison of different Afshār groups remains outstanding.
Afshar is distinguished by many 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
- Afshar (tribe)
- Afsharid dynasty
References
- ↑ Robbeets, Martine (24 July 2015). Diachrony of Verb Morphology. De Gruyter Mouton. p. 10.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 "Atlas of the Languages of Iran A working classification". Ottawa: Carleton University. http://iranatlas.net/index.html?module=module.classification.
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds (2017). "Afshari". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History. http://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/afsh1238.
- ↑ Azerbaijani, South at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
- ↑ "Glottolog 4.6 - Afshari". https://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/afsh1238.
- ↑ Michael Knüppel, E.. "TURKIC LANGUAGES OF PERSIA: AN OVERVIEW". Encyclopædia Iranica. http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/turkic-languages-overview. Retrieved 2021-03-28. "1.4. Southern-Oghuz. 1.4.1. Afšār. The Afšār language was once spoken in a wide area in western and southwestern Persia from Kermānšāh to the shores of the Persian Gulf.".
- ↑ Template:EI3
Literature
- Doerfer, Gerhard; Hesche, Wolfram (1989). Südoghusische Materialen aus Afghanistan und Iran. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz. ISBN 3-447-02786-X.
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