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Khorasani Turkic alphabet, pronunciation and language
<!DOCTYPE HTML> <html> <head> <title>Khorasani Turkic alphabet, pronunciation and language</title> <meta name="description" content="Khorasani Turkic is an Oghuz Turkic language spoken in North Khorasan Province and Razavi Khorasan Province in Iran by about 1 million people." /> <!-- Google Tag Manager --> <script>(function(w,d,s,l,i){w[l]=w[l]||[];w[l].push({'gtm.start': new Date().getTime(),event:'gtm.js'});var f=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0], j=d.createElement(s),dl=l!='dataLayer'?'&l='+l:'';j.async=true;j.src= 'https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtm.js?id='+i+dl;f.parentNode.insertBefore(j,f); })(window,document,'script','dataLayer','GTM-WB7PSHBG');</script> <!-- End Google Tag Manager --> <meta charset="UTF-8"> <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0"> <meta property="og:image" content="https://www.omniglot.com/images/logos/omniglot_thumbnail.jpg" /> <meta property="og:type" content="https://www.facebook.com/pg/Omniglot-100430558332117/posts/" /> <link href="/styles/style.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" /> <script src="https://the.gatekeeperconsent.com/cmp.min.js" data-cfasync="false"></script> <script async src="//www.ezojs.com/ezoic/sa.min.js"></script> <script> window.ezstandalone = window.ezstandalone || {}; ezstandalone.cmd = ezstandalone.cmd || []; </script></head> <body> <div id="header"> <!-- Google Tag Manager (noscript) --> <noscript><iframe src="https://www.googletagmanager.com/ns.html?id=GTM-WB7PSHBG" height="0" width="0" style="display:none;visibility:hidden"></iframe></noscript> <!-- End Google Tag Manager (noscript) --> <p><a href="/index.htm"><img src="/images/logos/header_omniglot.png" width="600" height="70" alt="Omniglot - the online encyclopedia of writing systems & languages" /></a></p> <ul> <li><a href="/index.htm">Home</a></li> <li><a href="/writing/index.htm">Alphabets</a></li> <li><a href="/conscripts/index.htm">Constructed scripts</a></li> <li><a href="/writing/languages.htm">Languages</a></li> <li><a href="/language/phrases/phraseindex.htm">Phrases</a></li> <li><a href="/language/numbers/index.htm">Numbers</a></li> <li><a href="/language/ml.htm">Multilingual Pages</a></li> <li><a href="/search.htm">Search</a></li> <li><a href="/news/index.htm">News</a></li> <li><a href="/about.htm">About</a></li> <li><a href="/contact.htm">Contact</a></li> </ul></div> <div id="bodybox"> <span style="text-align:center;"><div id="ezoic-pub-ad-placeholder-162"></div> <script> ezstandalone.cmd.push(function() { ezstandalone.showAds(162); }); </script></span><div id="body"> <h1>Khorasani Turkic (Xorasan Türkçesi / خراسان تركچىسى)</h1> <p>Khorasani Turkic is an Oghuz Turkic language spoken by about 1 million people in North Khorasan Province (<span dir="rtl">استان خراسان شمالی</span>) and Razavi Khorasan Province (<span dir="rtl">استان خراسان رضوی</span>) in northeastern Iran. There are three dialects of Khorasani Turkic: North, which is spoken in North Khorasan, near Bojnourd; South, which is spoken in Soltanabad near Sabzevar, and West, which is spoken around Bojnourd. </p> <p><iframe src="https://www.google.com/maps/embed?pb=!1m18!1m12!1m3!1d6659414.193848334!2d49.233215434527125!3d35.41350162971121!2m3!1f0!2f0!3f0!3m2!1i1024!2i768!4f13.1!3m3!1m2!1s0x3f12d1cea40b54cd%3A0x74d7c0dec8ce6660!2sRazavi%20Khorasan%20Province%2C%20Iran!5e0!3m2!1sen!2suk!4v1706886225187!5m2!1sen!2suk" width="400" height="300" style="border:0;" allowfullscreen="" loading="lazy" referrerpolicy="no-referrer-when-downgrade"></iframe> </p> <p>Khorasani Turkic is part of the Oghuz group of Turkic languages, and is closely related to the Oghuz dialect spoken in Uzbekistan, as well as Turkmen, and the Azerbaijani dialects spoken in Iran. </p> <p>Khorasan Turkic is not usually written and has no official status, however a version of the Perso-Arabic script is sometimes used to write the language. It can also be written with the Latin alphabet. </p> <h2 style="text-align:right;">Khorasani Turkic alphabet and pronunciation</h2> <p style="text-align:right;"><img src="../images/writing/khorasaniturkic.gif" width="600" height="775" alt="Arabic alphabet for Khorasani Turkic" /> </p> <p>The letters ث، ح، ذ، ژ، ص، ض، ط، ظ and ع are only used in Arabic and Persian loanwords and names. </p> <h2>Latin alphabet for Khorasani Turkic</h2> <p><img src="../images/writing/khorasaniturkic_latin.gif" width="554" height="420" alt="Latin alphabet for Khorasani Turkic" /> </p> <h2>Cyrillic alphabet for Khorasani Turkic</h2> <p>This is a way of writing Khorasani Turkic with the Cyrillic alphabet devised by Alexander Ilynovich from Kaluga Oblast, Russia. </p> <p><img src="../images/writing/khorasaniturkic_cyr.gif" width="567" height="411" alt="Cyrillic alphabet for Khorasani Turkic" /> </p> <p>Download charts for Khorasani Turkic in <a href="../charts/khorasaniturkic.pdf">PDF</a> or <a href="../charts/khorasaniturkic.xls">Excel</a> format. </p> <p><em>Information compiled by Wolfram Siegel and Michael Peter Füstumum</em> </p> <h2 style="text-align:right;">Sample text (Perso-Arabic script)</h2> <p style="text-align:right;">ال غسا بیر زیود پدیشهی بـهریدی.<br /> خوداوندی آلم اونا هیچ اوغول اتا ایلهمامیشدی.<br /> بدن وازیره دهدی: «ای وازیر, منده کی اوغول یوخدی. من نه چاره ایولیم»؟<br /> وازیر دهدی: «پادیشای قیبلنهیی آلم, سن بو مالیموالی نیلیسن»؟ </p> <h3>Sample text (Latin alphabet)</h3> <p>Al ğəssa bir ziüəd pədişəhi bərıdı.<br /> Xodavəndi ələm ona hiç oğul ata eləmamişdi.<br /> Bədən vazirə dədi: «Ey vazir, məndə ki oğul yoxdı. Mən nə çarə eülem?»<br /> Vazir dədi: «Padişai qıbləyi aləm, sən bu malıəmvalı nəyliyəsən?» </p> <h3>Sample text (Cyrillic alphabet)</h3> <p>Ал гъэсса бир зиўэд пэдишэни бэрыды.<br /> Хъодавэнди элэм она хич огъул ата елэмамишди.<br /> Бэдэн вазирэ дэди: Ей вазир, мэндэ ки огъул йохды. Мэн нэ чарэ еўлем?<br /> Вазир дэди: Падишаи къыблэйи алэм, сэн бу малыэмвалы нэйлийэсэн? </p> <h3>Translation</h3> <p>Thus, there was a padishah named Ziyad.<br /> Almighty God had given him no son.<br /> There he spoke to his vizier: "O Vizier, I have no son. What shall I do about it?"<br /> The vizier said: "Ruler of the whole world, what will you do with this possession?" </p> <p><em>Excerpt from Tulu (1989)</em> </p> <p><em>Details of the Khorasani Turkic alphabet supplied by Wolfram Siegel and Michael Peter Füstumum</em> </p> <h2>Sample videos</h2> <div class="intrinsic-container intrinsic-container-16x9"> <iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/orxCfoShew4" allowfullscreen></iframe> </div> <div class="intrinsic-container intrinsic-container-16x9"> <iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/4sxpfEGKYcU" allowfullscreen></iframe> </div> <div class="intrinsic-container intrinsic-container-16x9"> <iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/My6prqGFuqc" allowfullscreen></iframe> </div> <p class="info"><a href="/writing/khorasaniturkic.htm">Information about Khorasani Turkic</a> | <a href="/language/numbers/khorasaniturkic.htm">Numbers</a></p> <h2>Links</h2> <p>Information about the Khorasani Turkic language<br /> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khorasani_Turkic_language">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khorasani_Turkic_language</a><br /> <a href="https://www.ethnologue.com/language/kmz">https://www.ethnologue.com/language/kmz</a><br /> <a href="http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/turkic-languages-overview">http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/turkic-languages-overview</a><br /> <a href="http://www.language-archives.org/language/kmz">http://www.language-archives.org/language/kmz</a> </p> <h2>Turkic languages</h2> <p><a href="/writing/altay.htm">Altay</a>, <a href="/writing/aynu.htm">Äynu</a>, <a href="/writing/azeri.htm">Azerbaijani</a>, <a href="/writing/bashkir.htm">Bashkir</a>, <a href="/writing/chagatai.htm">Chagatai</a>, <a href="/writing/chelkan.htm">Chelkan</a>, <a href="/writing/chulym.htm">Chulym</a>, <a href="/writing/chuvash.htm">Chuvash</a>, <a href="/writing/crimeantatar.php">Crimean Tatar</a>, <a href="/writing/dolgan.htm">Dolgan</a>, <a href="/writing/fuyukyrgyz.htm">Fuyu 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