Khorasani Turkic language

language
name=Khorasani Turkic
states=Iran
region=Khorasan
speakers=400,000 (estimate) [cite book|chapter=The speakers of Turkic languages|author=Boeschoten, H|title=The Turkic languages|editor=L. Johanson and É. Á. Csató (eds)|year=1998|publisher=Routledge|location=London|isbn=978-0-415-41261-2]
familycolor=Altaic
fam1=Altaic [The existence of the Altaic family is controversial. See Altaic languages.]
fam2=Turkic
fam3=Oghuz
iso2=tut
iso3=kmz

Khorasani Turkic (تركي خراساني / Turki Khorasani), or Qizilbash Turkic Fact|date=June 2008, is a language variety in the Turkic language family. It is spoken in northern Khorasan in Iran. Khorasani Turkic speakers also speak Persian. [" [http://www.ethnologue.org/show_language.asp?code=kmz Ethnologue report for Khorasani Turkish] "]

Geographic Distribution

Khorasani Turkic is spoken in the Iranian provinces of North Khorasan, near Bojnourd, and Razavi Khorasan, near Sabzevar, Quchan, and Mashhad. If the Oghuz dialect of Uzbek is considered a dialect of Khorasani Turkic, its range extends into southern Uzbekistan.

Dialects

Khorasani Turkic is split into North, South, and West dialects. The northern dialect is spoken in North Khorasan near Quchan; the southern in Soltanabad near Sabzevar; the western around Bojnourd.

Classification and Related Languages

Khorasani Turkic belongs to the Oghuz group of Turkic languages, which also includes Turkish, Azerbaijani, Gagauz, Balkan Gagauz Turkish, Turkmen, and Salar, as well as the Oghuz dialect spoken in Uzbekistan. Khorasani Turkish is most closely related to Oghuz Uzbek and Turkmen and is close to the Azerbaijani dialects spoken in Iran. Even though it is linguistically between Azerbaijani and Turkmen, it is not a dialect of either. [Ethnologue]

ounds

Consonants

Pronouns

Khorasani Turkish has six personal pronouns. Occasionally, personal pronouns take different case endings from regular nouns.

Verbs

Verbs are declined for tense, aspect, mood, person, and number. The infinitive form of the verb ends in "-max".

Examples

;"Excerpt from Tulu (1989) p. 90"

References

External links

* [http://www.ethnologue.org/show_language.asp?code=kmz Ethnologue report for Khorasani Turkish]