Hazaragi

E25382

Persian dialect dialect language variety

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.

Aliases (2)

Dari ×1
Yevanic ×1

Statements (47)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Persian dialect → dialect → language variety →
closelyRelatedTo	Dari → Kabuli Persian →
country	Afghanistan → Iran → Pakistan →
ethnicAssociation	Hazara →
hasFeature	distinct phonology → retroflex consonants → vowel changes compared to standard Dari →
hasInfluenceFrom	Mongolian → Mongolic languages → Pashto → Turkic languages → Uzbek →
hasLoanwordsFrom	Mongolic languages → Pashto → 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 →
primaryRegion	Central Afghanistan → Hazarajat →
region	Central Highlands of Afghanistan → Mashhad → Quetta →
spokenBy	Hazara people →
spokenIn	rural Hazara communities → urban Hazara communities →
subclassOf	Persian language → Western Persian →
usedIn	folklore → oral literature → poetry →
writingSystem	Arabic script → Perso-Arabic script →

Referenced by (4)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Ramin ("Dari") →	commonInLanguage
Persian language →	hasDialect
Hellenic languages ("Yevanic") →	hasPart
Hazaras →	language