Moghol language

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Mogholi
Spoken in:	Afghanistan
Region:	near Herat
Total speakers:	200
Language family:	Altaic^[1] Mongolic Mogholi
Language codes
ISO 639-1:	none
ISO 639-2:	`–`
ISO 639-3:	`mhj`
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Moghol (also known as Mogholi [ISO 639-3]) is a Mongolic language spoken in Afghanistan by a few people around Herat, where Dari (Persian) is the common language. In the 1970s, when the German scholar Michael Weiers did fieldwork on the language, few people knew the language, most knew it passively and most were older than 40 years. It is probably extinct by now. Moghol people in northern Afghanistan now speak Pashto. ^[2]

1 Notes
2 References
3 Further Reading
4 See also
5 Links

[edit] Notes

^ The existence of the Altaic family is controversial. See Altaic languages.
^ Raymond G. Gordon, Jr, ed. 2005. Ethnologue: Languages of the World. 15th edition. Dallas: Summer Institute of Linguistics.

[edit] References

Ethnologue entry for Mogholi

[edit] Further Reading

Michael Weiers. 1971. Die Sprache der Moghol der Provinz Herat in Afghanistan (Sprachmaterial, Grammatik, Wortliste). Opladen: Westdeutscher Verlag.
Michael Weiers. 2003. "Moghol," The Mongolic Languages. Ed. Juha Janhunen. Routledge Language Family Series 5. London: Routledge. Pages 248-264.