Chaharmahali Turkic

Chaharmahali Turkic
Native toIran[1]
EthnicityChaharmahali Turks
Native speakers
(undated figure of 30,000)[2]
Turkic
Language codes
ISO 639-3–
  Distribution of Chaharmahali Turkic spoken as a native language

Chaharmahali Turkic (Chaharmahali Turkic: چارمحال توْرکی‌سؽ) is a proposed Oghuz Turkic variety spoken in Iran's Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari province, and 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 "Chārmāhāli," a Persian dialect spoken in the same region.[6]

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  6. ^ "Language distribution: Chahar Mahal and Bakhtiari Province". Iran Atlas. Archived from the original on 2017-12-04. Retrieved 8 June 2022.