Chaharmahali Turkic
Oghuz Turkic language spoken in Iran
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Chaharmahali Turkic (چهارمحال تۆرکیسی Çəharməhal Türkîsi/چهارمحالی تۆرکی Çəharməhali Türkî) is a proposed Oghuz Turkic variety spoken in Iran's Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari province and in western Isfahan province, where it is described as "Esfahan Province Turkic" by linguists.[4] It is an understudied and generally unclassified variety of Oghuz Turkic distinct from Azerbaijani and Qashqai, being closer to the latter.[5] Chaharmahali Turkic is not to be confused with "Charmahali Persian," (fa) a Persian dialect spoken in the same region.[6]
| Chaharmahali Turkic | |
|---|---|
| چهارمحال تۆرکیسی / Çəharməhal türkîsi | |
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| Native to | Iran[1] |
| Ethnicity | Chaharmahali Turks |
Native speakers | (undated figure of 30,000)[2] |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | – |
 Distribution of Chaharmahali Turkic spoken as a native language | |
Language Distribution
The Atlas of the Languages of Iran (ALI)[7] published a point-based and polygon language distribution map of Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari province and several linguistic data maps.[8][9][10]
