Social:Afshar language
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| Afshar | |
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| Native to | Turkey, Iran, Syria, Afghanistan |
| Ethnicity | Afshar people |
Native speakers | Unknown |
Turkic
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| Perso-Arabic script, Latin script | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | (included in azb) |
| Glottolog | afsh1238[1] |
Afshar or Afshari (Azerbaijani: Əfşar türkcəsi, افشار تورکجهسی, Әфшар түркҹәси; Turkish: Afşar dili or Afşarca) 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.[2][better source needed]
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
- Afshar tribe
- Afsharid dynasty
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, 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". https://www.ethnologue.com/language/azb. Retrieved 4 February 2017.
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