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Line 36: }} The '''Hazaras''' ({{lang-fa|هزاره|Həzārə}}; {{lang-haz|آزره|Āzrə}}) are an [[ethnic group]] and a principal component of the population of [[Afghanistan]], native to, and primarily residing in the [[Hazaristan]] (Hazarajat) region in central Afghanistan and generally scattered throughout Afghanistan. They are one of the largest [[ethnic groups in Afghanistan]],<ref name="Iranica2">{{cite encyclopedia |first=L. |last=Dupree |title=AFGHANISTAN |trans-title=iv. Ethnography |encyclopedia=Encyclopædia Iranica |edition=Online |year=2006 |url=http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/afghanistan-iv-ethnography}}</ref><ref name="CIA-af">{{cite web |url=https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/countries/afghanistan/ |title=Afghanistan: 31,822,848 (July 2014 est.) @ 9% (2014) |access-date=July 17, 2015 |work=[[The World Factbook]]| publisher=[[Central Intelligence Agency]]}}</ref><ref name="Al-jazeera">{{cite web |url=http://www.aljazeera.com/video/asia/2011/11/2011111284512336838.html |title=Hazara community finds safe haven in Peshawar |publisher=Al Jazeera English |date=November 12, 2011 |access-date=November 12, 2011 |first=Kamal |last=Hyder}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.loc.gov/rr/frd/cs/profiles/Afghanistan.pdf |title=COUNTRY PROFILE: AFGHANISTAN |publisher=[[Library of Congress Country Studies]] |access-date=August 22, 2017}}</ref> and are also significant minority groups in neighboring [[Pakistan]], mostly in [[Quetta District|Quetta]],<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://thediplomat.com/2013/07/the-plight-of-the-hazaras-in-pakistan/|title=The Plight of the Hazaras in Pakistan|author=Malik Ayub Sumbal|magazine=The Diplomat|access-date=August 22, 2017}}</ref><ref name="whoarethehaz" /> and as well as in [[Iran]].<ref name="W.I.Smyth" /> They speak the [[Hazaragi]] and [[Dari]] [[Persian dialects|dialects]] of [[Persian languages|Persian]] Hazaras are considered to be one of the most persecuted groups in Afghanistan,<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Emadi |first1=Hafizullah |title=The Hazaras and their role in the process of political transformation in Afghanistan |journal=Central Asian Survey |date=September 1997 |volume=16 |issue=3 |pages=363–387 |doi=10.1080/02634939708400997 |quote=Hazaras are one of the oppressed and dispossessed national minority communities of the country.}}</ref> and [[Persecution of Hazara people|their persecution]] has occurred various times across previous decades.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Mousavi |first1=S. A. |title=The Hazaras of Afghanistan |date=October 24, 2018 |publisher=Routledge}}</ref> Line 242: Hazara people living in [[Hazaristan]] (Hazarajat) region speak the [[Hazaragi]] dialect.<ref name="hazara-4" /><ref>''Mongols of Afghanistan: An Ethnography of the Moghôls and Related Peoples of Afghanistan'' Mouton, The Hague, Netherlands, page 17, {{OCLC|401634}}</ref> According to [[Encyclopaedia of Islam]], Hazaragi is a [[Persian language|Persian]] dialect, which is infused with many [[Turkic languages|Turkic]] and a few [[Mongolic languages|Mongolic]] words or [[loanwords]].<ref name=":13" /><ref name="Iranica-Afghanistan">{{cite web |work=[[Louis Dupree (professor)|L. Dupree]] |date=December 15, 1983 |publisher=Encyclopædia Iranica |title=AFGHANISTAN iv. Ethnography |url=http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/afghanistan-iv-ethnography |edition=Online |location=United States}}</ref><ref>Malistani, A. H. Tariq and Gehring, Roman (compilers) (1993) '' Farhang-i ibtidal-i milli-i Hazarah : bi-inzimam-i tarjamah bih Farsi-i Ingilisi = Hazaragi – Dari/Persian- English: a preliminary glossary'' A. H. Tariq Malistani, Quetta, {{OCLC|33814814}}</ref><ref name=Farhadi>Farhadi, A. G. Ravan (1955). ''Le persan parlé en Afghanistan: Grammaire du kâboli accompagnée d'un recuil de quatrains populaires de la région de Kâbol''. Paris.</ref> According to Atif Adnan, the Hazara population speaks Persian with some Mongolian words.<ref name="Atif Adnan" /> The primary differences between Persian and Hazaragi are the accent.<ref name="OCLC 401634" /><ref name="hazara-4" /> Despite these differences, Hazaragi is mutually intelligible with [[Dari]],<ref name="Attitudes Towards Hazaragi" /> one of the two [[Languages of Afghanistan|official languages in Afghanistan]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Languages in Afghanistan|url=https://swedishcommittee.org/afghanistan/language|access-date=2021-02-14|website=The Swedish Committee for Afghanistan (SCA)}}</ref>
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