Afshar dialect


Afshar or Afshari is a Turkic dialect spoken in Turkey, Iran, Syria, Turkmenistan and parts of Afghanistan by the Afshars. Ethnologue and Glottolog list it as a dialect of the South Azerbaijani language.
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 , which is in standard Azerbaijani.

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