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Chaharmahali Turkic (Chaharmahali: ترکچیسی چهار مهالی) is a proposed
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Oghuz Turkic
The Oghuz languages are a sub-branch of the Turkic language family, spoken by approximately 108 million people. The three languages with the largest number of speakers are Turkish, Azerbaijani and Turkmen, which, combined, account for more t ...
variety spoken in Iran
Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and also called Persia, is a country located in Western Asia. It is bordered by Iraq and Turkey to the west, by Azerbaijan and Armenia to the northwest, by the Caspian Sea and Turkmeni ...
's Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari Province, and western Isfahan Province where it is described as "Esfahan Province Turkic" by linguists. It is an understudied and generally unclassified variety of Oghuz Turkic
The Oghuz languages are a sub-branch of the Turkic language family, spoken by approximately 108 million people. The three languages with the largest number of speakers are Turkish, Azerbaijani and Turkmen, which, combined, account for more t ...
distinct from Azerbaijani and Qashqai, being closer to the latter. Chaharmahali Turkic is not to be confused with " Chārmāhāli," a Persian
Persian may refer to:
* People and things from Iran, historically called ''Persia'' in the English language
** Persians, the majority ethnic group in Iran, not to be conflated with the Iranic peoples
** Persian language, an Iranian language of the ...
dialect spoken in the same region.
Language Distribution
The ''Atlas of the Languages of Iran'' (ALI) published a point-based and polygon language distribution map of Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari Province, and several linguistic data maps.Anonby, Erik, Mortaza Taheri-Ardali, et al. (eds.). 2015-2017. ''Atlas of the Languages of Iran: Languages of Chahar Mahal va Bakhtiari Province, Iran.'' Ottawa: Geomatics and Cartographic Research Centre, Carleton University. Online address(retrieved September 26, 2021)
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See also
*Qizilbash
Qizilbash or Kizilbash ( az, Qızılbaş; ota, قزيل باش; fa, قزلباش, Qezelbāš; tr, Kızılbaş, lit=Red head ) were a diverse array of mainly Turkoman Shia militant groups that flourished in Iranian Azerbaijan, Anatolia, the ...
*Azerbaijani language
Azerbaijani () or Azeri (), also referred to as Azeri Turkic or Azeri Turkish, is a Turkic language from the Oghuz sub-branch spoken primarily by the Azerbaijani people, who live mainly in the Republic of Azerbaijan where the North Azerbaija ...
*Qashqai language
Qashqai (قشقایی ديلى, ''Qašqāyī dili''; also spelled Qaşqay, Qashqayi, Kashkai, Kashkay, Qašqāʾī, by Michael Knüppel, by Gerhard Doerfer and Qashqa'i or Kaşkay) is an Oghuz languages, Oghuz Turkic languages, Turkic language sp ...
References
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