Hazaragi

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Hazaragi is a variety of Persian primarily spoken by the Hazara people of central Afghanistan and surrounding regions, distinguished by its unique phonology and significant Turkic and Mongolic influences.

All labels observed (4)

Label Occurrences
Hazaragi canonical 8
Dari 1
Hazaregi 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (47)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Persian dialect
dialect
language variety
closelyRelatedTo Dari
Kabuli Persian
linked to: Persian language
country Afghanistan
Iran
Pakistan
ethnicAssociation Hazara
linked to: Hazaras
hasFeature distinct phonology
retroflex consonants
vowel changes compared to standard Dari
hasInfluenceFrom Mongolian
Mongolic languages
Pashto
linked to: Pashto language

Turkic languages
Uzbek
hasLoanwordsFrom Mongolic languages
Pashto
linked to: Pashto language

Turkic languages
hasPhonologicalInfluenceFrom Mongolic languages
Turkic languages
hasSociolinguisticStatus marker of Hazara identity
often considered a dialect of Dari
ISOStatus treated as variety of Persian in ISO 639
languageBranch Indo-Iranian languages
Iranian languages
Southwestern Iranian languages
Western Iranian languages
languageFamily Indo-European languages
mutualIntelligibilityWith Dari
Iranian Persian
linked to: Persian language
primaryRegion Central Afghanistan
Hazarajat
region Central Highlands of Afghanistan
Mashhad
Quetta
spokenBy Hazara people
linked to: Hazaras
spokenIn rural Hazara communities
urban Hazara communities
subclassOf Persian language
Western Persian
usedIn folklore
oral literature
poetry
writingSystem Arabic script
Perso-Arabic script

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (11)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Persian language hasDialect Hazaragi
Hellenic languages hasPart Yevanic
linked to: Hazaragi
Ramin commonInLanguage Dari
linked to: Hazaragi
Hazaras language Hazaragi
Hazaragi dialect hasAlternativeName Hazaregi
linked to: Hazaragi
Hazarajat language Hazaragi