Aimaq dialect
| Aimaq | |
|---|---|
| گویش ایماقی | |
Aimaqi written in the Perso-Arabic script in Nastaliq style. | |
| Native to | Afghanistan, Iran |
| Ethnicity | Aimaq |
Native speakers | 1.9 million (2017–2019) |
| 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. The Aimaq people are thought to have a 5–15% literacy rate.