Explore: Afshar Dialect

Afshar or Afshari (Azerbaijani: Əfşar) is a Turkic dialect spoken in Iran and Afghanistan by the Afshars. Ethnologue and Glottolog list it as a dialect

the Afshars' migration to Khorasan was already taking place by start of the 16th century. The Afshar dialect is categorized either as a dialect of the

Armenian, and 0.2% Others (e.g. Circassian, Georgian, etc.). The local dialect of Arabic spoken in Iran is Khuzestani Arabic, but the varieties of Arabic

Afshar (Azerbaijani: Əfşar افشار; Turkish: Avşar, Afşar; Turkmen: Owşar اوْوشار; Persian: افشار, romanized: Afshār) is a tribe of Oghuz Turkic origin that

language of lower classes. South Oghuz Afshar (could be a dialect of South Azerbaijani language) Aynallu (could be a dialect of South Azerbaijani language) Qashqai

Iranian and American surname. Afshar people, Turkic tribe in Turkey and Afghanistan. Afshar dialect, Turkic dialect spoken by Afshar tribe of Iran and Afghanistan

possible dialect of Azerbaijani, or as a distinctive variety of Southern Oghuz/Afshar. Ethnologue and Glottolog list it as a South Azerbaijani dialect. Knowledge

have transformed the original dialect (cf. Johanson, Discoveries, 14–6). In 2009 a linguistic comparison of different Afshār groups remains outstanding.

specified the Tabrizi dialect as the speech of the Turkomans, Afshars, and "Gök-dolaq". Apart from formal samples, these dialects were further exemplified

the Afsharid Empire, was an Iranian empire established by the Turkoman Afshar tribe in Iran's north-eastern province of Khorasan, establishing the Afsharid