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Chaharmahali Turkic (چهارمحال تۆرکچسى ''Çəharməhal türkçəsi'') is a proposed Oghuz Turkic variety spoken in
Iran Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI) and also known as Persia, is a country in West Asia. It borders Iraq to the west, Turkey, Azerbaijan, and Armenia to the northwest, the Caspian Sea to the north, Turkmenistan to the nort ...
's Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari province and in western Isfahan province, where it is described as "Esfahan Province Turkic" by linguists. It is an understudied and generally unclassified variety of Oghuz Turkic distinct from Azerbaijani and Qashqai, being closer to the latter. Chaharmahali Turkic is not to be confused with " Charmahali Persian," ( fa) a Persian dialect spoken in the same region.


Language Distribution

The '' Atlas of the Languages of Iran'' (ALI) published a point-based and polygon language distribution map of Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari province and several linguistic data maps.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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See also

* Qizilbash *
Azerbaijani language Azerbaijani ( ; , , ) or Azeri ( ), also referred to as Azerbaijani Turkic or Azerbaijani Turkish (, , ), is a Turkic languages, Turkic language from the Oghuz languages, Oghuz sub-branch. It is spoken primarily by the Azerbaijanis, Azerbaij ...
* Qashqai language


References

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