Afshar dialect
| Afshar | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Turkey, Iran, Syria, Afghanistan |
| Ethnicity | Avshar Turkmen |
Native speakers | about 600,000[citation needed] |
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 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
Doerfer, Gerhard and Hesche, Wolfram (1989). Südoghusische Materialen aus Afghanistan und Iran. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz. ISBN 3-447-02786-X.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
See also