Afshar language
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| Afshar | ||
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| Native to | Turkey, Syria, Iran, Afghanistan | |
| Region | Anatolia, Mesopotamia, Khorasan, Iran, Kerman area, Kabul area. | |
| Native speakers | about 600,000 (date missing) | |
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| Writing system | Perso-Arabic script, Latin script | |
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| ISO 639-3 | – | |
| Linguist List | azb-afs | |
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Afshar or Afshari, is a Turkic language spoken in Turkey, Syria, parts of Afghanistan and Iran by the Afshar tribe. 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.
References[edit]
Doerfer, Gerhard and Hesche, Wolfram (1989). Südoghusische Materialen aus Afghanistan und Iran. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz. ISBN 3-447-02786-X.
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