Chaharmahali Turkic

Chaharmahali Turkic (چهارمحال تۆرکیسی Çəharməhal Türkîsi/چهارمحالی تۆرکی Çəharməhali Türkî) or is a proposed Oghuz Turkic variety spoken in Iran's Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari province and in western Isfahan province, where it is described as "Esfahan Province Turkic" by linguists.^[4] It is an understudied and generally unclassified variety of Oghuz Turkic distinct from Azerbaijani and Qashqai, being closer to the latter.^[5] Chaharmahali Turkic is not to be confused with "Charmahali Persian," (fa) a Persian dialect spoken in the same region.^[6]

Chaharmahali Turkic
چهارمحال تۆرکیسی / Çəharməhal türkîsi
Native to	Iran[1]
Ethnicity	Chaharmahali Turks
Native speakers	(undated figure of 30,000)[2]
Language family	Turkic Common Turkic Oghuz Southern Oghuz[3] Chaharmahali Turkic
Language codes
ISO 639-3	–
Distribution of Chaharmahali Turkic spoken as a native language

Language Distribution

The Atlas of the Languages of Iran (ALI)^[7] published a point-based and polygon language distribution map of Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari province and several linguistic data maps.^[8][9][10]

Linguistic map of Chahar Mahal va Bakhtiari Province, showing Turkic of Chaharmahal (including Qashqai)

See also

• Qizilbash
• Azerbaijani language
• Qashqai language