Chaharmahali Turkic

Chaharmahali Turkic (Chaharmahali Turkic: چارمحال توْرکی‌سؽ) is a proposed Oghuz Turkic variety spoken in Iran's Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari province, and 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
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

References

1. "Language distribution: Chahar Mahal and Bakhtiari Province". Iran Atlas. Archived from the original on 2017-12-04. Retrieved 26 September 2021.
2. "Total population of populated places (with language distribution data)". Iran Atlas. Archived from the original on 2022-06-03. Retrieved 3 June 2022.
3. "Atlas of the Languages of Iran: A working classification". Iran Atlas. Archived from the original on 2019-12-29. Retrieved 26 September 2021.
4. "Language distribution: Esfahan Province". Iran Atlas. Archived from the original on 2022-04-11. Retrieved 3 June 2022.
5. "Language distribution: Chahar Mahal and Bakhtiari Province". Iran Atlas. Archived from the original on 2017-12-04. Retrieved 26 September 2021.
6. "Language distribution: Chahar Mahal and Bakhtiari Province". Iran Atlas. Archived from the original on 2017-12-04. Retrieved 8 June 2022.
7. Geomatics and Cartographic Research Centre, Carleton University. "Atlas built on CouchDb". iranatlas.net. Retrieved September 26, 2021.
8. Anonby, Erik, Mortaza Taheri-Ardali, et al. (eds.). 2015–2017. Atlas of the Languages of Iran. Ottawa: Geomatics and Cartographic Research Centre, Carleton University. Online address: http://iranatlas.net (retrieved September 26, 2021).]
9. Anonby, Erik, Mortaza Taheri-Ardali, et al. (eds.). 2015–2017. Atlas of the Languages of Iran: Chahar Mahal va Bakhtiari language map. Ottawa: Geomatics and Cartographic Research Centre, Carleton University. Online address: (September 26, 2021).
10. 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)