| Moghol | |
|---|---|
| Mogholi | |
| مُغُلی | |
| Native to | Afghanistan |
| Region | Herat Province |
| Ethnicity | Moghol people |
Native speakers | 200 (2003)[1] |
Mongolic
| |
| Perso-Arabic script | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | mhj |
| Glottolog | mogh1245 |
| ELP | Mogholi |
Moghol (or Mogholi; Dari: مُغُلی) is a critically endangered and possibly extinct Mongolic language spoken in the province of Herat, Afghanistan, in the villages of Kundur and Karez-i-Mulla. The speakers were the Moghol people, who numbered 2,000 members in the 1970s. They descend from the remnants of Genghis Khan's Mongol army stationed in Afghanistan in the 13th century.[2]
In the 1970s, when the German scholar Michael Weiers did fieldwork on the language, few people spoke it, most knew it passively and most were older than 40. It is unknown if there are still speakers of the language.[3]
The language has been strongly influenced by Persian in its phonology, morphology and syntax, causing Weiers to state that it has the appearance of a "true Inner Asian creole language".[3]