Native to Iran Native speakers 1 million (1993) Glottolog khor1269 | Region Greater Khorasan ISO 639-3 kmz | |
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Language family Turkic
Common Turkic
Oghuz
Eastern Oghuz
Khorasani Turkic | ||
Khorasani Turkic (Khorasani Turkic: Xorasan Türkçesi IPA [xorɑsɑn tyrktʃesi] Persian: Zemān Torkī Xorāsānī زبان ترکی خراسانی) is a language variety in the Turkic language family. It is spoken in northern North Khorasan Province and Razavi Khorasan Province in Iran. Nearly all Khorasani Turkic speakers are also bilingual in Persian.
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Geographic distribution
Khorasani Turkic is spoken in the Iranian provinces of North Khorasan, near Bojnord, and Razavi Khorasan, near Sabzevar, Quchan. The Oghuz dialect spoken in western Uzbekistan is sometimes considered a dialect of Khorasani Turkic.
Dialects
Khorasani Turkic is split into North, South, and West dialects. The northern dialect is spoken in North Khorasan near Quchan; the southern in Soltanabad near Sabzevar; the western around Bojnord.
Classification and related languages
Khorasani Turkic belongs to the Oghuz group of Turkic languages, which also includes Turkish, Azerbaijani, Gagauz, Balkan Gagauz Turkish, Turkmen, and Salar, as well as the Oghuz dialect spoken in Uzbekistan. Khorasani Turkic is most closely related to Oghuz Uzbek and Turkmen and is close to the Azerbaijani dialects spoken in Iran.
Khorasani Turkic was classified as a separate dialect by Javad Heyat for first time in the book Tarikh-e zabān o lahcayā-ye Türki (History of the Turkic dialects).
According some linguistics, it's been considered linguistically between Azerbaijani and Turkmen, but it's not considered as a dialect of either.
Vowels
Open back vowel rounding follow /u/ or /i/ muxabbat love [muxɒbbɑt] and insan human [insɒn] but yoldaşlık friendship [joldɑʃlɯk]. Some words rounding /ɑ/ follow /o/ for long vowel. May be happen not all speaker, plural have no rounding never. Persian may not come by phone a vowel, consonant challenge the sound Turkic.
Pluralization
Pluralization is marked on nouns with the suffix -lAr, which has the two forms -lar and -lær, depending on vowel harmony. Plular /ɑ/ never rounding even follow /u/ or /i/ for.
Case
Nouns in Khorasani Turkic take a number of case endings that change based on vowel harmony and whether they follow a vowel or a consonant:
Possession
Possession is marked with a suffix on the possessed noun.
Pronouns
Khorasani Turkic has six personal pronouns. Occasionally, personal pronouns take different case endings from regular nouns.
Verbs
Verbs are declined for tense, aspect, mood, person, and number. The infinitive form of the verb ends in -max.