Where Hazaragi is spoken
Hazaragi is spoken in 4 countries: Afghanistan, Iran, Pakistan and Tajikistan. The table gives the share of each country’s people who speak it, from Unicode CLDR, where CLDR has a figure.
| Country | Share of population | Estimated speakers |
|---|---|---|
| Afghanistan | 5.9% | 2,367,174 |
| Iran | Not given | Not given |
| Pakistan | Not given | Not given |
| Tajikistan | Not given | Not given |
Estimated speakers are the CLDR percentage applied to CLDR’s own population figure for the country, so they are rough. A country without a figure may still have speakers: it is listed because the language area, or Glottolog’s record, reaches it.
Hazaragi has no area on the map because no open area map covers it. The ringed point is the position Glottolog gives for the language.
How many people speak Hazaragi?
Wikidata gives about 2.2 million speakers (Wikidata, with no source given, 2000). These figures are approximate: they come from different sources, years and definitions of a speaker.
Status: Not endangered. Glottolog lists it as not endangered: it is still being passed on to children.
Where Hazaragi sits in the language family tree
Glottolog classifies Hazaragi as follows, from the largest family down to the language itself.
- 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
Related languages
Other languages in the Eastern Farsic group:
More about Hazaragi
- Read about Hazaragi on Wikipedia
- Indo-European languages map
- Languages spoken in Afghanistan
- All languages, A to Z
Codes: ISO 639-3 haz, Glottolog haza1239. Glottolog macroarea: Eurasia.
Questions about Hazaragi
Where is Hazaragi spoken?
Hazaragi is spoken in Afghanistan, Iran, Pakistan and Tajikistan. Unicode CLDR puts it at 5.9% of the population of Afghanistan, which is about 2,367,174 people. On the map it is shown as a single point, because no open area map covers it.
How many people speak Hazaragi?
Wikidata gives about 2.2 million speakers (Wikidata, with no source given, 2000). Speaker numbers are approximate and differ between sources: counting who is a speaker, and whether to include second-language speakers, is not settled.
Which language family is Hazaragi in?
Glottolog places Hazaragi in the Indo-European family, in the branch Classical Indo-European, Indo-Iranian, Iranian-Nuristani, Iranian, Southwestern Iranian, Middle-Modern Persian, Modern Southwestern Iranian, Farsic-Caucasian Tat, Farsic and Eastern Farsic.