Afshar language

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Afshar
Spoken in	Turkey  Syria  Iran  Afghanistan
Region	Anatolia, Mezopotamia, Khorasan, Iran, Kerman area, Kabul area.
Total speakers	more than 6,000,000
Language family	Altaic[1] (controversial) Turkic Oghuz Afshar
Writing system	Perso-Arabic script, Latin alphabet
Language codes
ISO 639-1	None
ISO 639-2	tr
ISO 639-3	–
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Afshar or Afshari, is a Turkic language spoken in Turkey, Syria, parts of Afghanistan and Iran. It is considered by many to be a dialect of [Turkish]. As is the case for many Turkic languages, dialect continua blur the lines between distinct languages and dialects.

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.

[edit] References

Doerfer, Gerhard and Hesche, Wolfram (1989). Südoghusische Materialen aus Afghanistan und Iran. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz. ISBN 3-447-02786-X. 

[edit] See also

• Afshar
• Afshar tribe
• Avshar Turkmen
• Afsharid dynasty

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