Southern Khalaj

E814618

Southern Khalaj is a primary regional variety of the Khalaj Turkic language, spoken by communities in parts of Iran.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Southern Khalaj canonical 3

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Statements (42)

Predicate Object
instanceOf language variety
regional dialect
belongsToEthnicGroupCulture Khalaj people in Iran
linked to: Khalaj people
closelyRelatedTo Northern Khalaj
consideredByLinguistsAs conservative Turkic variety
country Iran
documentationStatus limited descriptive work
endangeredStatus definitely endangered
hasAncestor Old Oghuz
linked to: Oghuz

Proto-Turkic
hasCaseSystem rich case morphology
hasConsonantFeature retention of *h in some positions
hasDialectalVariation village-based micro-variation
hasNumberOfSpeakersEstimate several thousand
hasPhonologicalFeature preservation of archaic Turkic features
vowel length contrast
hasSociolinguisticSituation bilingualism with Persian
hasVowelHarmony reduced compared to other Turkic languages
hasWordOrder SOV
influencedBy Persian language
ISO639-3 klj
isPrimaryVarietyOf Khalaj language
languageBranch Oghuz branch
linked to: Oghuz
languageFamily Turkic languages
languageStatus vulnerable
lessUsedInDomain formal education
official media
lexicalBorrowingFrom Persian language
morphologicalType agglutinative
region central Iran
script Perso-Arabic script
sharesMutualIntelligibilityWith Northern Khalaj
spokenBy Khalaj people
spokenIn Iran
Markazi Province
Qom Province
subdivisionOf Khalaj Turkic
Khalaj language
threatenedBy language shift to Persian
usedAs oral language
usedInDomain community communication
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Referenced by (3)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Khalaj hasDialect Southern Khalaj
Northern Khalaj distinctFrom Southern Khalaj
Khalaj language hasDialect Southern Khalaj