Indo-European · ISO 639-3 haz
Hazaragi Language آزرگی
Hazaragi is an Indo-European language spoken by about 2.2 million people in 1 country. It is written in the Perso-Arabic script.
Where Hazaragi is spoken
- Official language
- Regional official
- Spoken by 10%+
- 1–10%
- Smaller communities
Countries that speak Hazaragi
Language family
- Indo-European
- Classical Indo-European
- Indo-Iranian
- Iranian-Nuristani
- Iranian
- Southwestern Iranian
- Middle-Modern Persian
- Modern Southwestern Iranian
- Farsic-Caucasian Tat
- Farsic
- Eastern Farsic
- Hazaragi
Writing system
Perso-Arabic script
Related languages
About the Hazaragi language
Hazaragi (آزرگی) is spoken by about 2.2 million people, which makes it the 295th most spoken language in the world — just behind Soga (2.3 million) and ahead of Mobwa Karen (2.2 million). It belongs to the Indo-European language family and, more precisely, to the Eastern Farsic group within the Indo-Iranian branch.
Where is Hazaragi spoken?
Hazaragi is used in 1 country. The largest communities live in Afghanistan (2.4 million).
Hazaragi is not a national official language anywhere.
Writing system and status
Hazaragi is written in the Perso-Arabic script. It is a safe, widely transmitted language: children still learn it at home as their first language.
Its closest relatives in the same branch of the family are Tajik, Dari, Iranian Persian, Northern Luri, Bakhtiari, Southern Luri and 2 more.
ISO codes: ISO 639-3 haz.
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Data: Languages of the World dataset (MIT) — ISO 639-3, Glottolog (CC BY 4.0), Unicode CLDR, Google LinguaMeta (CC BY 4.0) and Wikidata; country lists: samayo/country-json (MIT). Speaker numbers include first- and second-language speakers where sources report them.