Southern Khalaj

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

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Predicate Object
instanceOf language variety
regional dialect
belongsToEthnicGroupCulture Khalaj people in Iran NERFINISHED
closelyRelatedTo Northern Khalaj NERFINISHED
consideredByLinguistsAs conservative Turkic variety
country Iran
documentationStatus limited descriptive work
endangeredStatus definitely endangered
hasAncestor Old Oghuz NERFINISHED
Proto-Turkic NERFINISHED
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 NERFINISHED
ISO639-3 klj
isPrimaryVarietyOf Khalaj language NERFINISHED
languageBranch Oghuz branch NERFINISHED
languageFamily Turkic languages NERFINISHED
languageStatus vulnerable
lessUsedInDomain formal education
official media
lexicalBorrowingFrom Persian language NERFINISHED
morphologicalType agglutinative
region central Iran NERFINISHED
script Perso-Arabic script NERFINISHED
sharesMutualIntelligibilityWith Northern Khalaj NERFINISHED
spokenBy Khalaj people NERFINISHED
spokenIn Iran NERFINISHED
Markazi Province NERFINISHED
Qom Province NERFINISHED
subdivisionOf Khalaj Turkic NERFINISHED
Khalaj language
threatenedBy language shift to Persian
usedAs oral language
usedInDomain community communication
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Khalaj hasDialect Southern Khalaj