Afscharian language

Afsharish
Spoken in	Iran , Afghanistan
speaker	approx. 350,000
Linguistic ; classification	Altaic languages (controversial) Turkic languages Oghus languages (Southwest Turkish) South oghusian Afsharish ;
Language codes
ISO 639 -2	tut (other Altaic languages)

The Afshar language or Afsharisch (own name: Afşar dili , Afşarca or Afşar Turki , ie. “Afsharic Turkish”) is a Turkic language in Iran . It is one of the southern Turkish languages within the Turkic languages. The language is named after the Oghuz tribe of the Afshars (Afşar) .

See also: Comparative consideration of the Turkic languages

Number of speakers

Afjar language area (blue)

According to information from the organization SIL International , around 290,000 people in Iran spoke Afshar as their mother tongue in 1997 . There are another 5,000 speakers in Afghanistan . The speakers are mostly elderly, so the language is threatened with extinction.

See also: Azerbaijani, section "Distribution"

Writing

In Iran, Afsharic is officially considered to be writtenless. The Arabic alphabet was always used to write the fragmentary written monuments of Afsharian .

Individual evidence

^ Lars Johanson, Éva Csató: The Turkic languages . P. 82, books.google.de
↑ Gerhard villages, tungsten Hesche: Südoghusische materials from Afghanistan and Iran . Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1989, ISBN 3-447-02786-X
^ Azerbaijani South . ( Memento of December 21, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Ethnologue . Afsharisch ( English Afshar ) is listed here as a dialect of the southern variant of Azerbaijani spoken in Iran .

[1] Lars Johanson, Éva Csató: The Turkic languages . P. 82, books.google.de

[2] Gerhard villages, tungsten Hesche: Südoghusische materials from Afghanistan and Iran . Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1989, ISBN 3-447-02786-X

[3] Azerbaijani South . ( Memento of December 21, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Ethnologue . Afsharisch ( English Afshar ) is listed here as a dialect of the southern variant of Azerbaijani spoken in Iran .