Afshar dialect
Afshar or Afshari () is a Turkic dialect spoken in Turkey, Iran, Syria, and parts of Afghanistan by the Afshars. Ethnologue and Glottolog list it as a dialect of the South Azerbaijani language. The Encyclopædia Iranica lists it as a separate Southern Oghuz language. According to the third edition of the Encyclopaedia of Islam: Afshar is distinguished by many loanwords from Persian and a rounding of the phoneme to , as occurred in Uzbek. In many cases, vowels that are rounded in Azerbaijani are not rounded in Afshar. An example of this is (meaning 100), which is in standard Azerbaijani. See also Afshar (tribe) Afsharid dynasty References Literature Agglutinative languages Languages of Iran Languages of Turkey Languages of Iraq Languages of Syria Turkic languages of Afghanistan Oghuz languages Afshar tribe Turkic languages