Back اللغة المغولية Arabic Idioma mogholi AST Магольская мова Byelorussian Магольская мова BE-X-OLD Mogolieg Breton Mogholština Czech Moghol German Idioma mogholi Spanish Mogolera Basque زبان مغولی (افغانستان) Persian
| Moghol | |
|---|---|
| Mogholi | |
| مُغُلی | |
| Native to | Afghanistan |
| Region | Herat Province |
| Ethnicity | Moghol people |
| Extinct | 2013[1] 200 (2003)[2] |
Mongolic
| |
| Perso-Arabic script | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | mhj |
| Glottolog | mogh1245 |
| ELP | Mogholi |
 Moghol is classified as Critically Endangered by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger | |
Moghol (or Mogholi; Dari: مُغُلی) is a critically endangered and possibly extinct Mongolic language spoken in the province of Herat, Afghanistan, in the villages of Kundur and Karez-i-Mulla. The speakers were the Moghol people, who numbered 2,000 members in the 1970s. They descend from the remnants of Genghis Khan's Mongol army stationed in Afghanistan in the 13th century.[3]
In the 1970s, when the German scholar Michael Weiers did fieldwork on the language, few people spoke it, most knew it passively and most were older than 40. It is unknown if there are still speakers of the language,[4] and it is listed as dormant by Ethnologue.[5]
The language has been strongly influenced by Persian in its phonology, morphology and syntax, causing Weiers to state that it has the appearance of a "true Inner Asian creole language".[4]
- ^ "The ASJP Database - Wordlist Moghol". asjp.clld.org. Retrieved 2025-01-09.
status extinct since 2013
- ^ "UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in danger". www.unesco.org. UNESCO. Retrieved 2018-01-01.
- ^ Sayed Zaki Faqerzai (n.d.). "Language of Speaking in Afghanistan". AsiaFront.com. Archived from the original on 2014-04-13. Retrieved 2014-04-12.
- ^ a b Weiers, Michael. 2003. "Moghol," The Mongolic Languages. Ed. Juha Janhunen. Routledge Language Family Series 5. London: Routledge. Pages 248–264.
- ^ "Moghol" (18 ed.). Ethnologue. 2015.