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
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Described at
Turkic Database at Elegant Lexicon
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- number of speakers, writers, or signers
- 300000
- described at URL
- turkic.elegantlexicon.com/lx.php?lx=afs
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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:
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