Distribution of Chaharmahali Turkic spoken as a native language
Chaharmahali Turkic (چهارمحال تۆرکیسیÇəharməhal Türkîsi/چهارمحالی تۆرکیÇəharməhali Türkî) is a proposedOghuz Turkic variety spoken inIran'sChaharmahal and Bakhtiari province and in westernIsfahan province, where it is described as "Esfahan Province Turkic" by linguists.[4] It is an understudied and generally unclassified variety ofOghuz Turkic distinct fromAzerbaijani andQashqai, being closer to the latter.[5] Chaharmahali Turkic is not to be confused with "Charmahali Persian," (fa) aPersian dialect spoken in the same region.[6]
TheAtlas of the Languages of Iran (ALI)[7] published a point-based and polygon language distribution map of Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari province and several linguistic data maps.[8][9][10]
Linguistic map of Chahar Mahal va Bakhtiari Province, showing Turkic of Chaharmahal (including Qashqai)
^Geomatics and Cartographic Research Centre, Carleton University."Atlas built on CouchDb".iranatlas.net. RetrievedSeptember 26, 2021.
^Anonby, Erik, Mortaza Taheri-Ardali, et al. (eds.). 2015–2017.Atlas of the Languages of Iran. Ottawa: Geomatics and Cartographic Research Centre, Carleton University. Online address:http://iranatlas.net (retrieved September 26, 2021).]
^Anonby, Erik, Mortaza Taheri-Ardali, et al. (eds.). 2015–2017.Atlas of the Languages of Iran: Chahar Mahal va Bakhtiari language map. Ottawa: Geomatics and Cartographic Research Centre, Carleton University. Online address:(September 26, 2021).
^Anonby, Erik, Mortaza Taheri-Ardali, et al. (eds.). 2015–2017.Atlas of the Languages of Iran: Languages of Chahar Mahal va Bakhtiari Province, Iran. Ottawa: Geomatics and Cartographic Research Centre, Carleton University. Online address:(retrieved September 26, 2021)
