Afshar or Afshari, is a Turkic language spoken in Turkey, Syria, parts of Afghanistan and Iran. Ethnologue lists it as a dialect of South Azerbaijani language.
Afshar is distinguished by a large number of loanwords from Persian and a rounding of the phoneme /a/ to, as occurred in Uzbek. In many cases, vowels that are rounded in Azerbaijani are not rounded in Afshar. An example of this is /jiz/ (meaning 100), which is /jyz/ in standard Azerbaijani.
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