Chaharmahali Turkic (Chaharmahali: ترکچیسی چهار مهالی) is a proposed Oghuz Turkic variety spoken in

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'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 distinct from

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and Qashqai, being closer to the latter. Chaharmahali Turkic is not to be confused with " Chārmāhāli," a Persian 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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References

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