Hazaragi
| Hazaragi | ||
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Spoken in |
Afghanistan , Iran , Pakistan | |
| speaker | 2.5 million (2.2 million in Afghanistan and 0.3 million in Iran) | |
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| Official status | ||
| Official language in | - | |
| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639 -1 |
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| ISO 639 -2 |
ira |
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| ISO 639-3 |
haz |
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As Hazaragi or Hasaragi (own name:آزرگی Azoragi [ɑzɪɾɡi] ) is a dialect of the Persian language in Afghanistan . Hazaragi is the mother tongue of many Hazara living in Afghanistan and as refugees in neighboring regions. It has no official status and only in the last few years there have been first attempts to introduce a (Persian) written language.
In contrast to standard Persian, Hazaragi has a large number of Turkish and Mongolian foreign words and is therefore not always understandable for other Persian speakers. Characteristic word endings are "ai" and "o". For example, “bača” (Dari for “boy”) becomes “bačai” (Hazaragi for “boy”). Without it is noticeable in the spelling, joins the phonology different from Dari next to the voiceless alveolar plosive occasionally also the voiceless retroflex plosive (z. B. موتر moʈaɾ) on.
The dialect of Hazaragi spoken in Pakistan , predominantly in Quetta , is called Quetta'i (corresponding proper name: کویتگی [ko͡iʈaɡi] ). It contains many words from Pakistani Urdu , English and Pashtun and has become significantly closer to Urdu in pronunciation. Although some of the Hazara have lived here for generations and, apart from schools for Afghan refugees, only the Urdu language is taught, many Hazaras learn Hazaragi in the form of Quettagi as their mother tongue.
The spread of the Hazaragi is decreasing. On the one hand, this is due to the fact that schools are not taught in Hazaragi, but in Afghanistan in Dari and in Pakistan in Urdu. On the other hand, this is due to the emigration to other Persian-speaking regions, in which Hazaras assimilate quickly, so that in parts of Afghanistan other than Hazarajat they speak Dari and in Iran the Tehran dialect of Persian.
Web links
- Hazaragi on Ethnologue.com
