Chaharmahali Turkic


Chaharmahali Turkic 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. It is an understudied and generally unclassified variety of Oghuz Turkic distinct from Azerbaijani and Qashqai, being closer to the latter. Chaharmahali Turkic is not to be confused with "Charmahali Persian," a Persian dialect spoken in the same region.

Language Distribution

The Atlas of the Languages of Iran published a point-based and polygon language distribution map of Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari province and several linguistic data maps.