Aimaq dialect

Aimaq
Aimaq
گویش ایماقی
	Aimaqi written in the Persian script in Nastaliq style.
Native to	Afghanistan
Ethnicity	Aimaq
Native speakers	1.9 million (2017–2019)
Language family	Indo-European Indo-Iranian Iranian Western Iranian Southwestern Iranian Persian Eastern Aimaq; ; ; ; ; ; ;
Writing system	Persian alphabet
Official status
Recognised minority; language in	Tajikistan (in Gorno-Badakhshan)
Language codes
ISO 639-3	aiq
Glottolog	aima1241

Aimaq or Aimaqi (Persian: ایماقی, romanized: Aimāqi) is a Persian dialect and the dominant eastern Persian ethnolect spoken by the Aimaq people in central northwest Afghanistan (west of the Hazarajat). It is close to the Dari varieties of Persian. The Aimaq people are thought to have a 5–15% literacy rate.