AFSHAR LANGUAGE

'Afshar' or 'Afshari', is a Turkic language spoken in parts of Afghanistan and Iran. There are some speakers in Syria and Turkey. It is considered by many to be a dialect of Azerbaijani. As is the case for many Turkic languages, dialect continua blur the lines between distinct languages and dialects.
Afshar is distinguished by a large number of loanwords from Dari 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.

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Südoghusische Materialen aus Afghanistan und Iran, Doerfer, Gerhard and Hesche, Wolfram, , , Harrassowitz, 1989, ISBN 3-447-02786-X