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Khalaj language

Khalaj
خلج
Khalaj in the Persian Nasta'liq form
Native toIran
RegionDistributed throughout a number of villages in the Markazi Province from Qom to Ashtian and Tafresh[1]
EthnicityKhalaj
Native speakers
19,000 (2018)[2]
to 20,000[3]
Dialects
  • Talx-āb[5]: 17 [a]
  • Xarrāb[5]: 18 
  • Dāγān[5]: 20 
Language codes
ISO 639-3klj
Glottologturk1303
ELPKhalaj
Map of the location of the Khalaj Language.
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Khalaj is a Turkic language spoken in Iran. Although it contains many old Turkic elements, it has become widely Persianized.[6][7] Khalaj has about 150 words of uncertain origin.[5]: 32 

Surveys have found that most young Khalaj parents do not pass the language on to their children; only 5% of families teach their children the language.[2]

Khalaj language is a descendant of an old Turkic language called Arghu.[4][8] The 11th-century Turkic lexicographer Mahmud al-Kashgari was the first person to give written examples of the Khalaj language, which are mostly interchangeable with modern Khalaj.[7]

Gerhard Doerfer, who rediscovered Khalaj, demonstrated that it was an independent branch from Common Turkic.[8]

  1. ^ Ragagnin, E. (2020). "Major and Minor Turkic Language Islands in Iran with a Special Focus on Khalaj". Iranian Studies. 53 (3–4): 574. doi:10.1080/00210862.2020.1740881. S2CID 218924277.
  2. ^ a b زبان خلجی در حال انقراض [Endangered Khalaj language]. همشهری آنلاین [Hamshahri Online] (in Persian). 2019-08-14. Retrieved 2021-07-26.
  3. ^ Knüppel, Michael (15 April 2010). "Turkic languages of Persia: an overview". Encyclopædia Iranica.
  4. ^ a b Johanson & Csató 1998, p. 81.
  5. ^ a b c d Doerfer 1977.
  6. ^ Knüppel 2009.
  7. ^ a b Ölmez 1995.
  8. ^ a b Robbeets 2015, p. 8.


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