- Hazaragi
language
name=Hazaragi
states=Afghanistan
speakers=2,209,794 (Ethnologue )
familycolor=Indo-European
fam2=Indo-Iranian
fam3=Iranian
fam4=Western Iranian
fam5=Southwestern Iranian
fam6=Persian
iso2=ira|iso3=hazHazaragi is a variety of Persian, spoken by the
Hazara people ofAfghanistan ,Iran andPakistan . The primary differences between Standard Persian and Hazaragi are the accent [Schurmann, Franz (1962) "The Mongols of Afghanistan: An Ethnography of the Moghôls and Related Peoples of Afghanistan" Mouton, The Hague, Netherlands, - page 17, [http://worldcat.org/oclc/401634 OCLC 401634] ] and a larger borrowing of Turkic and Mongolic vocabulary.Classification
Hazaragi has been classified as both a separate language [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/Persian - English: a preliminary glossary" A. H. Tariq Malistani, Quetta, [http://worldcat.org/oclc/33814814 OCLC 33814814] ] [ [http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=haz "Ethnologue Report on Hazaragi"] ] and as a dialect [Dulling, G. K. (1973) "The Hazaragi dialect of Afghan Persian" Central Asian Research Centre, London, [http://worldcat.org/oclc/703532 OCLC 703532] ] of Persian. It is easily distinguishable from other Persian dialects or languages spoken in
Afghanistan . [Schurmann, Franz (1962) "The Mongols of Afghanistan: An Ethnography of the Moghôls and Related Peoples of Afghanistan" Mouton, The Hague, Netherlands, - page 110, [http://worldcat.org/oclc/401634 OCLC 401634] ] Hazaragi contains someMongolic and Turkic words.Area
Hazaragi is spoken by the
Hazara people of centralAfghanistan as well as by a large refugee population found in northeasternIran and in parts ofPakistan , such asQuetta . [Area Handbook for Afghanistan - Page 77 by Harvey Henry Smith, American University (Washington, D.C.) Foreign Area Studies]Notes
See also
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Hazara people
*Persian language External links
* [http://www.geocities.com/alytaj/hazaragi/hazaragi.html Hazaragi Poetry dobaiti by Ali Baba Taj]
* [http://imf.geocortex.net/imf/imf.jsp?site=worldmap_peo&qlyr=People%20Groups&qzoom=true&qbuf=.35&qhlt=true&qry=ROG3=%27AF%27%20AND%20ROP3=%27103743%27 Map of the Hazaragi language in Afghanistan]
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