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Moghol
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Mongolic language spoken in the region of Herat, Afghanistan, by the Moghol people, who are members of the Sunni Hazara community.
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Within Vinony's link graph, Moghol is referenced by 79 other articles, and connects out to Afghanistan, Persian and UNESCO.
Vinony files it under Agglutinative languages, Extinct languages of Asia and ISO language articles citing sources other than Ethnologue.
Its subject is documented across 38 Wikipedia language editions.
Key facts
- Native to
- Afghanistan
- Region
- Herat Province
- Ethnicity
- Moghols
- Native speakers
- 200 (2003)
- Language family
- Mongolic Moghol
- Dialects
- Karez-I-Mulla Kundur
- Writing system
- Perso-Arabic script
- Iso 639 3
- mhj
- Glottolog
- mogh1245
- Elp
- Mogholi
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
Show 5 more facts
- linguistic typology
- agglutinative language
- topic's main category
- Category:Mogholi language
- indigenous to
- Herat Province
- number of speakers, writers, or signers
- 200
Sources (10)
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Encyclopedic overview
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 Mongol army of Genghis Khan who conquered Afghanistan (then part of the Khwarazmian Empire) in the 13th century.
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, and it is listed as dormant by Ethnologue.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Moghol” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.