Southern Khalaj

E814618

Southern Khalaj is a primary regional variety of the Khalaj Turkic language, spoken by communities in parts of Iran.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Southern Khalaj canonical 3

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (42)

Predicate Object
instanceOf language variety ⓘ
regional dialect ⓘ
belongsToEthnicGroupCulture Khalaj people in Iran ⓘ
linked to: Khalaj people
closelyRelatedTo Northern Khalaj ⓘ
consideredByLinguistsAs conservative Turkic variety ⓘ
country Iran ⓘ
documentationStatus limited descriptive work ⓘ
endangeredStatus definitely endangered ⓘ
hasAncestor Old Oghuz ⓘ
linked to: Oghuz

Proto-Turkic ⓘ
hasCaseSystem rich case morphology ⓘ
hasConsonantFeature retention of *h in some positions ⓘ
hasDialectalVariation village-based micro-variation ⓘ
hasNumberOfSpeakersEstimate several thousand ⓘ
hasPhonologicalFeature preservation of archaic Turkic features ⓘ
vowel length contrast ⓘ
hasSociolinguisticSituation bilingualism with Persian ⓘ
hasVowelHarmony reduced compared to other Turkic languages ⓘ
hasWordOrder SOV ⓘ
influencedBy Persian language ⓘ
ISO639-3 klj ⓘ
isPrimaryVarietyOf Khalaj language ⓘ
languageBranch Oghuz branch ⓘ
linked to: Oghuz
languageFamily Turkic languages ⓘ
languageStatus vulnerable ⓘ
lessUsedInDomain formal education ⓘ
official media ⓘ
lexicalBorrowingFrom Persian language ⓘ
morphologicalType agglutinative ⓘ
region central Iran ⓘ
script Perso-Arabic script ⓘ
sharesMutualIntelligibilityWith Northern Khalaj ⓘ
spokenBy Khalaj people ⓘ
spokenIn Iran ⓘ
Markazi Province ⓘ
Qom Province ⓘ
subdivisionOf Khalaj Turkic ⓘ
Khalaj language ⓘ
threatenedBy language shift to Persian ⓘ
usedAs oral language ⓘ
usedInDomain community communication ⓘ
home ⓘ

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (3)

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

Khalaj → hasDialect → Southern Khalaj ⓘ
Northern Khalaj → distinctFrom → Southern Khalaj ⓘ
Khalaj language → hasDialect → Southern Khalaj ⓘ