Afshar | |
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Native to | Turkey, Iran, Syria, Afghanistan |
Ethnicity | Afshar people |
Native speakers
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about 600,000 (date missing) |
Turkic
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Perso-Arabic script, Latin script | |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | (included in azb) |
Glottolog | afsh1238 |
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.