Afshar dialect

Afshar or Afshari (Azerbaijani: Əfşar türkcəsi, افشار تورکجه‌سی‎, Әфшар түркҹәси; Turkish: Afşar dili or Afşarca) is a Turkic dialect spoken in Turkey, Iran, Syria, Turkmenistan[3][4] and parts of Afghanistan by the Afshars. Ethnologue and Glottolog list it as a dialect of the South Azerbaijani language.[5]

Afshar
Native toTurkey, Iran, Syria, Turkmenistan[1][2] Afghanistan
EthnicityAfshar people
Native speakers
Unknown
Turkic
Perso-Arabic script, Latin script
Language codes
ISO 639-3(included in azb)
Glottologafsh1238

Afshar is distinguished by many loanwords from Persian 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/ (meaning 100), which is /jyz/ in standard Azerbaijani.

See also

References
  1. Azerbaijani language, Big Soviet Encyclopedia (in Russian), 3rd edition (in 30 vol); Chief editor A.M.Prokhorov — 3rd edition, published by Soviet Encyclopedia, 1969—1978.
  2. Adnan Menderes Kaya, "Avşar Türkmenleri", Dadaloğlu Eğitim, Kültür, Sosyal Yardımlaşma ve Dayanışma Derneği, 2004; ISBN 9755691499
  3. Azerbaijani language, Big Soviet Encyclopedia (in Russian), 3rd edition (in 30 vol); Chief editor A.M.Prokhorov — 3rd edition, published by Soviet Encyclopedia, 1969—1978.
  4. Adnan Menderes Kaya, "Avşar Türkmenleri", Dadaloğlu Eğitim, Kültür, Sosyal Yardımlaşma ve Dayanışma Derneği, 2004; ISBN 9755691499
  5. "Azerbaijani, South". Ethnologue. Retrieved 4 February 2017.

Literature
  • Doerfer, Gerhard; Hesche, Wolfram (1989). Südoghusische Materialen aus Afghanistan und Iran. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz. ISBN 3-447-02786-X.


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