| Afshar | |
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| افشر,Əfşar | |
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| Native to | Iran,Afghanistan |
| Ethnicity | Afshars |
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| ISO 639-3 | (included inSouth Azerbaijani [azb]) |
| Glottolog | afsh1238 |
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Afshar orAfshari (Azerbaijani:Əfşar) is aTurkicdialect spoken inIran andAfghanistan by theAfshars.Ethnologue andGlottolog list it as a dialect of theSouth Azerbaijani language.[2][3] TheEncyclopædia Iranica lists it as a separate Southern Oghuz language.[4]
According to the third edition of theEncyclopaedia of Islam:[5]
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 fromPersian 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/ (meaning100), which is/jyz/ in standard Azerbaijani.[6]
According toLars Johanson, emeritus professor of Turcology and linguistics at the University of Mainz, and Eva Csato, professor emeritus in Turkic languages at Uppsala University, state that the Afshar dialect as SWS; Southwestern South Oghuz group that includes the dialects of Iran (such asQashqai,Sonqori,Aynallu, etc.) and Afghanistan (e.g., Afshar).[7]
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.
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