Afshar language
Afshar or
Afshari, is a
Turkic language spoken in parts of
Afghanistan and
Iran. 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 occured 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.
