Chaharmahali Turkic

Chaharmahali Turkic
چهارمحال تۆرکچسى / Çəharməhal türkçəsi
Native toIran
EthnicityChaharmahali Turks
Native speakers
(undated figure of 30,000)
Turkic
Language codes
ISO 639-3
  Distribution of Chaharmahali Turkic spoken as a native language

Chaharmahali Turkic (چهارمحال تۆرکچسى Çəharməhal türkçəsi) is a proposed Oghuz Turkic variety spoken in Iran's Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari province and in western Isfahan province, where it is described as "Esfahan Province Turkic" by linguists. It is an understudied and generally unclassified variety of Oghuz Turkic distinct from Azerbaijani and Qashqai, being closer to the latter. Chaharmahali Turkic is not to be confused with "Charmahali Persian," (fa) a Persian dialect spoken in the same region.