Aimaq dialect

Aimaq dialect
Aimaq dialect
گویش ایماقی
	Aimaqi written in the Perso-Arabic script in Nastaliq style.
Native to	Afghanistan, Iran, and Tajikistan
Ethnicity	Aimaq
Native speakers	1.9 million (2017–2019)
Language family	Indo-European Indo-Iranian Iranian Western Iranian Southwestern Iranian Persian Aimaq dialect; ; ; ; ; ;
Writing system	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.

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