Afshar language

Afshar
Native to	Turkey, Iran, Syria, Afghanistan
Ethnicity	Avshar Turkmen
Native speakers	about 600,000 (date missing)
Language family	Turkic Oghuz South Afshar
Writing system	Perso-Arabic script, Latin script
Language codes
ISO 639-3	(included in azb)
Glottolog	afsh1238

Afshar or Afshari, is a Turkic language spoken in Turkey, Iran, Syria, and parts of Afghanistan by the Afshar tribe. Ethnologue lists it as a dialect of South Azerbaijani language.

Afshar is distinguished by a large number of 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

• Afshar tribe
• Avshar Turkmen
• Afsharid dynasty