Afshar or Afshari () is a Turkic

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spoken in

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and

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by the Afshars. ''

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'' list it as a dialect of the South Azerbaijani language. The ''

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'' lists it as a separate Southern Oghuz language. According to the third edition of the ''

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'': Afshar is distinguished by many loanwords from Persian and a rounding of the phoneme to , as occurred in Uzbek. In many cases, vowels that are rounded in Azerbaijani are not rounded in Afshar. An example of this is (meaning ''100''), which is in standard Azerbaijani. According to Lars Johanson, emeritus professor of Turcology and linguistics at the University of Mainz, and Eva Csato, professor emeritus in Turkic languages at Uppsala University, state that the Afshar dialect as SW^S; Southwestern South Oghuz group that includes the dialects of Iran (such as Qashqai, Sonqori, Aynallu, etc.) and Afghanistan (e.g., Afshar).

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* * Agglutinative languages Languages of Iran Turkic languages of Afghanistan Oghuz languages Afshar tribe Turkic languages {{Turkic-lang-stub

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