Language of Hazara people

[Hazaristani]

Hazaras often speak Hazaragi which is a distinctive variety of the Persian language. It is closer to the Persian spoken in Afghanistan than to that spoken in Iran.[31] The differences include a distinctive accent[32] and a significant number of words of Mongolian and Turkic origin.[33][31] In particular, Hazaragi in the DaiKundi and Dhaizangi (also spelled as Daizangi) regions has a significant admixture of Mongolian influence in the language. Many of the urban Hazaras in the larger cities such as Kabul and Mazari Sharif no longer speak Hazaragi but speak Kaboli or regional varieties of Dari Persian, and in western region of Herat speak in the Khorasani dialect. Hazaras in Quetta, Pakistan often include Urdu and English words as part of their language, which they adopted since 1890 when they served in the British Indian Army in regiments such as the 106th Hazara Pioneers