Chaharmahali Turkic
Native toIran[1]
EthnicityChaharmahali Turks
Native speakers
(undated figure of 30,000)[2]
Turkic
Language codes
ISO 639-3–
  Distribution of Chaharmahali Turkic spoken as a native language

Chaharmahali Turkic (Chaharmahali Turkic: چارمحال توْرکی‌سؽ) is a proposed Oghuz Turkic variety spoken in Iran's Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari province, and western Isfahan province, where it is described as "Esfahan Province Turkic" by linguists.[4] It is an understudied and generally unclassified variety of Oghuz Turkic distinct from Azerbaijani and Qashqai, being closer to the latter.[5] Chaharmahali Turkic is not to be confused with "Chārmāhāli," a Persian dialect spoken in the same region.[6]

Language Distribution

The Atlas of the Languages of Iran (ALI)[7] published a point-based and polygon language distribution map of Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari province and several linguistic data maps.[8][9][10]

Linguistic map of Chahar Mahal va Bakhtiari Province, showing Turkic of Chaharmahal (including Qashqai)

See also

References

  1. ^ "Language distribution: Chahar Mahal and Bakhtiari Province". Iran Atlas. Archived from the original on 2017-12-04. Retrieved 26 September 2021.
  2. ^ "Total population of populated places (with language distribution data)". Iran Atlas. Archived from the original on 2022-06-03. Retrieved 3 June 2022.
  3. ^ "Atlas of the Languages of Iran: A working classification". Iran Atlas. Archived from the original on 2019-12-29. Retrieved 26 September 2021.
  4. ^ "Language distribution: Esfahan Province". Iran Atlas. Archived from the original on 2022-04-11. Retrieved 3 June 2022.
  5. ^ "Language distribution: Chahar Mahal and Bakhtiari Province". Iran Atlas. Archived from the original on 2017-12-04. Retrieved 26 September 2021.
  6. ^ "Language distribution: Chahar Mahal and Bakhtiari Province". Iran Atlas. Archived from the original on 2017-12-04. Retrieved 8 June 2022.
  7. ^ Geomatics and Cartographic Research Centre, Carleton University. "Atlas built on CouchDb". iranatlas.net. Retrieved September 26, 2021.
  8. ^ Anonby, Erik, Mortaza Taheri-Ardali, et al. (eds.). 2015–2017. Atlas of the Languages of Iran. Ottawa: Geomatics and Cartographic Research Centre, Carleton University. Online address: http://iranatlas.net (retrieved September 26, 2021).]
  9. ^ Anonby, Erik, Mortaza Taheri-Ardali, et al. (eds.). 2015–2017. Atlas of the Languages of Iran: Chahar Mahal va Bakhtiari language map. Ottawa: Geomatics and Cartographic Research Centre, Carleton University. Online address: (September 26, 2021).
  10. ^ Anonby, Erik, Mortaza Taheri-Ardali, et al. (eds.). 2015–2017. Atlas of the Languages of Iran: Languages of Chahar Mahal va Bakhtiari Province, Iran. Ottawa: Geomatics and Cartographic Research Centre, Carleton University. Online address: (retrieved September 26, 2021)
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