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Hazaragi is a dialect of the Persian language, with the main deviation from Farsi and Dari being a larger borrowing of Turkic and Mongolian vocabulary. It is spoken by the Hazara people of central Afghanistan and in parts of Pakistan, mainly Quetta as well as by a large refugee population found mainly in northeastern Iran. A dialect (from the Greek word διάλεκτος, dialektos) is a variety of a language used by people from a particular geographic area. ... Persian (فارسی / پارسی), (local name in Iran (Persia), Afghanistan and Tajikistan: ‘Fârsi’), ‘Pârsi’ (older local name, but still used by some speakers), Tajik (a Central Asian dialect) or Dari (another local name in Tajikistan and Afghanistan), is a language spoken in Iran (Persia), Tajikistan, Afghanistan, Uzbekistan, Bahrain, and elsewhere. ... Farsi may refer to: Persian: Farsi is the native name for the Persian language spoken in Iran (Persia), Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Afghanistan, and some other parts of the Caucasus and Central Asia (Ossetians speak Ossetic, which is a branch of Persian). ... The term Dari derives from Fârsi-e Darbâri which means Persian of the (royal) courts. It developed at the royal courts of the Samanids (980 AD) in Central Asia and became the major language of Persia. ... This is the disambiguation page for the terms Turk, Turkey, Turkic, and Turkish. ... The Hazara ethnic group resides mainly in the central Afghanistan mountain region called Hazarajat. They make approximately 20% of Afghanistans population. ... Quetta is the capital of the province Balochistan in Pakistan. ...


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Hazaragi language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (120 words)
Hazaragi is a dialect of Persian, the primary difference with Standard Persian (spoken in Iran and Afghanistan) being that there is a larger borrowing of Turkic and Mongolian vocabulary.
It is spoken by the Hazara people of central Afghanistan and in parts of Pakistan, such as Quetta as well as by a large refugee population found in northeastern Iran.
Hazaragi is spoken by more than 2 million people.
persian language - Article and Reference from OnPedia.com (1428 words)
Over this period, the morphology of the language was simplified from the complex conjugation and declension system of Old Persian to the almost completely regularized morphology and rigid syntax of Modern Persian, in a manner often described as paralleling the development of English.
Human languages, and the alphabet used to represent those languages in written form, are two different concepts, and alphabets are not intrinsic to human languages, so a shared writing system does not imply a broader relationship.
The Persian language was crucial in the formation of a common language of the central, north and northwest regions of the Indian subcontinent.
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