Sonqori, also known as Sonqori Turkic, is a dialect of Southern Oghuz Turkic spoken in

Sonqor Sonqor ( fa, سنقر; also known as Sanghūr and Sūnqūr,) is the capital city of Sonqor County, Kermanshah Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 43,184, comprising 11,377 families. It is located in the Zagros Mountains, about ...

(Sunqur), east of Kermānšāh, in a large valley separated from the rest of Kurdistan. According to the ''

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'', Sonqori is one of noteworthy Southern Oghuz dialects of Iran alongside Qashqai and Äynallu. The ''Encyclopædia Iranica'' notes that K. H. Menges had already characterized Sonqori, together with Qashqai and Äynallu, as a transitional form between Azerbaijani and

Khorasani Turkic Khorasani Turkic (, ) is an Oghuz Turkic language spoken in the North Khorasan Province and the Razavi Khorasan Province in Iran. Nearly all Khorasani Turkic speakers are also bilingual in Persian. The closest language of Khorasani Turkic ...

. Ethnologue lists it as a dialect of the

South Azerbaijani language Azerbaijani () or Azeri (), also referred to as Azeri Turkic or Azeri Turkish, is a Turkic language from the Oghuz sub-branch spoken primarily by the Azerbaijani people, who live mainly in the Republic of Azerbaijan where the North Azerbaija ...

. Knowledge of the dialect was scant prior to the expeditions of the

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. About 40,000 speakers of Sonqori exist in the Sonqor area.

Phonology

Vowels

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Agglutinative languages Languages of Iran Oghuz languages Azerbaijani language dialects Turkic languages {{Iran-stub