Afshar dialect

Afshar
Native to	Turkey, Iran, Syria, Afghanistan
Ethnicity	Afshar people
Native speakers	about 600,000
Language family	Turkic Common Turkic Oghuz Western Oghuz Azerbaijani South Azerbaijani Afshar
Writing system	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.

See also

• Afshar tribe
• Avshar Turkmen
• Afsharid dynasty

Literature

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