Key facts
- Native to
- Iran , Afghanistan
- Ethnicity
- Afshars
- Language family
- Turkic Common Turkic Oghuz (disputed) Afshar
- Dialects
- Hamadān Afshar Kermān Afshar Kabul Afshar
- Writing system
- Perso-Arabic script , Latin script
- Iso 639 3
- (included in Azerbaijani [azb])
- Glottolog
- afsh1238
via Wikipedia infobox
Described at
Turkic Database at Elegant Lexicon
A searchable database of lexical items in the Turkic languages
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Wikidata facts
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- linguistic typology
- agglutinative language
- writing system
- Persian alphabet
- number of speakers, writers, or signers
- 300000
- described at URL
- turkic.elegantlexicon.com/lx.php?lx=afs
- indigenous to
- Kabul Province
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Encyclopedic overview
Afshar or Afshari (Azerbaijani: Əfşar) is a Turkic dialect spoken in Iran and Afghanistan by the Afshars. Ethnologue and Glottolog list it as a dialect of the Azerbaijani language. The Encyclopædia Iranica lists it as a separate Southern Oghuz language.
According to the third edition of the Encyclopaedia of Islam:
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Afshar dialect” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.