In this article we are going to talk about Afshar dialect, a topic that has captured the attention of many people in recent years. Afshar dialect is a topic of great relevance in today's world, and its implications cover a wide range of sectors and disciplines. That is why it is important to understand what Afshar dialect is, how it has evolved over time and what its impact is on today's society. Throughout this article, we will explore various aspects related to Afshar dialect, from its history to its practical applications, in order to provide a comprehensive vision of this topic that has become a fundamental part of our reality.
Afshar | |
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افشر, Əfşar | |
Native to | Turkey, Iran, Syria, Afghanistan |
Ethnicity | Afshar people |
Native speakers | More than 6 million |
Turkic
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Dialects | |
Perso-Arabic script, Latin script | |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | (included in South Azerbaijani ) |
Glottolog | afsh1238 |
Afshar or Afshari (Azerbaijani: Əfşar dialekti) is a Turkic dialect spoken in Turkey, Iran, Syria, and parts of Afghanistan by the Afshars. Ethnologue and Glottolog list it as a dialect of the South Azerbaijani language. The Encyclopædia Iranica lists it as a separate Southern Oghuz language.
According to the third edition of the Encyclopaedia of Islam:
Linguistically, Afshārī is classified as a dialect belonging to the South Oghuz group of Turkic languages (southwestern branch of Turkic) (Johanson, History of Turkic, 82–3), or else as a dialect of South Azerbaijani (Azeri). As they were embedded in a Fārsī-speaking environment, however, in many cases Fārsī became the mother tongue of the Afshārs. Other groups became bilingual (as in Kirmān). Additionally, the contact between the different languages seems to have transformed the original dialect (cf. Johanson, Discoveries, 14–6). In 2009 a linguistic comparison of different Afshār groups remains outstanding.
Afshar is distinguished by many loanwords from Persian and a rounding of the phoneme /a/ to , 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.
1.4. Southern-Oghuz. 1.4.1. Afšār. The Afšār language was once spoken in a wide area in western and southwestern Persia from Kermānšāh to the shores of the Persian Gulf.