Aimaq dialect

Aimaq
Native to Afghanistan, Iran, Tajikistan
Native speakers
650,000 (1993)[1]
Persian alphabet
Language codes
ISO 639-3 aiq
Glottolog aima1241[2]

Aimaq (Persian: آیماقی) is a dialect of the Persian language spoken west of the Hazarajat (or Hazarastan), in central northwest Afghanistan, eastern Iran, and Tajikistan. It is the dominant ethnolect of Persian spoken by the Aymāq people. It is very close to the Khorasani and Dari dialects.[3] The Aimaq people are thought to have a 5-15% literacy rate.[4]

Dialects

Subdialects of Aimaq include:

Phonology

Phonetically, as one of the eastern Persian dialects, Aimaq dialect resembles a formal or classical form of Persian (Farsi).

Vowels:

Consonants:

References

Footnotes

  1. Aimaq at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Aimaq". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
  3. "Aimaq". World Culture Encyclopedia. everyculture.com. Retrieved 14 August 2009.
  4. "Aimaq". Ethnologue. 2009. Retrieved 14 August 2009.
  5. A. Pisowicz, Origins of the New and Middle Persian phonological systems (Cracow 1985), p. 112-114, 117.

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