Aimaq dialect

Aimaq
گویش ایماقی
Aimaqi written in the Perso-Arabic script in Nastaliq style.
Native to	Afghanistan, Iran, and Tajikistan
Ethnicity	Aimaq
Native speakers	1.9 million (2017–2019)[1]
Language family	Indo-European Indo-Iranian Iranian Western Iranian Southwestern Iranian Persian Aimaq
Writing system	Persian alphabet
Language codes
ISO 639-3	aiq
Glottolog	aima1241

Aimaq or Aimaqi (Persian: ایماقی, romanized: Aimāqi) is the dominant eastern Persian ethnolect spoken by the Aimaq people in central northwest Afghanistan (west of the Hazarajat) and eastern Iran. It is close to the Dari varieties of Persian.^[2] The Aimaq people are thought to have a 5–15% literacy rate.^[1]