KHORASANI TURKISH (Iran)

Family
Western-(Oghuz)-Turkic languages

Country
Iran

Language code
KMZ

Continent
Southwest Asia

Alternate language names
QUCHANI

Dialect names
WEST QUCHANI (NORTHWEST QUCHANI), NORTH QUCHANI(NORTHEAST QUCHANI), SOUTH QUCHANI

Genetic affiliation
Altaic, Turkic, Southern, Turkish

Geographical region
Northeast Iran, in the northern part of Khorasan Province, especially northwest of Mashhad. West dialect in Bojnurd region; north dialect in Quchan region (probably the largest), south dialect around Soltanabad near Sabzevar

Population
400,000 possibly (1977 Doerfer)

Bilingual in
Farsi

Status
Needs survey

Remarks
Midway linguistically between Azerbaija- ni and Turkmen, but not a dialect of either. Bilingual in Farsi. Not a literary language, but the government broadcasts in Quchani. Oghuz-Uzbek in Uzbekistan is reported to be a dialect of this. Distinct from Khorasani, a local Persian dialect in Khorasan

Total speakers
400,000 possibly

Religion
Muslim