Hazaragi
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| Hazaragi | ||
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| Spoken in: | Afghanistan, Iran, Pakistan, Tajikistan | |
| Total speakers: | 2,209,794 (Ethnologue) | |
| Language family: | Indo-European Indo-Iranian Iranian Western Iranian Southwestern Iranian Persian Hazaragi |
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| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-1: | none | |
| ISO 639-2: | ira | |
| ISO 639-3: | haz | |
| Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. | ||
Hazaragi is a variety of Persian, spoken by the Hazara people of Afghanistan and Pakistan. The primary differences between Standard Persian and Hazaragi are the accent[1] and a larger borrowing of Turkic and Mongolic vocabulary.
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[edit] Classification
Hazaragi has been classified as both a separate language[2][3] and as a dialect[4] of Persian. It is easily distinguishable from other Persian dialects or languages spoken in Afghanistan.[5] Hazaragi contains some Mongolic and Turkic words.
[edit] Area
Hazaragi is spoken by the Hazara people of central Afghanistan as well as by a large refugee population found in northeastern Iran and in parts of Pakistan, such as Quetta.[6]
[edit] Notes
- ^ Schurmann, Franz (1962) The Mongols of Afghanistan: An Ethnography of the Moghôls and Related Peoples of Afghanistan Mouton, The Hague, Netherlands, - page 17, OCLC 401634
- ^ Malistani, A. H. Tariq and Gehring, Roman (compilers) (1993) Farhang-i ibtidal-i milli-i Hazarah : bi-inzimam-i tarjamah bih Farsi-i Ingilisi = Hazaragi - Dari/Farsi - English: a preliminary glossary A. H. Tariq Malistani, Quetta, OCLC 33814814
- ^ "Ethnologue Report on Hazaragi"
- ^ Dulling, G. K. (1973) The Hazaragi dialect of Afghan Persian Central Asian Research Centre, London, OCLC 703532
- ^ Schurmann, Franz (1962) The Mongols of Afghanistan: An Ethnography of the Moghôls and Related Peoples of Afghanistan Mouton, The Hague, Netherlands, - page 110, OCLC 401634
- ^ Area Handbook for Afghanistan - Page 77 by Harvey Henry Smith, American University (Washington, D.C.) Foreign Area Studies
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