Language
Further information: Persian language, Dari Persian, Hazaragi, and Mogholi languageHazaras living in rural areas speak Hazaragi, an eastern dialect of the Persian language with a significant number of Mongolic loan words.
Many of the urban Hazaras in the larger cities such as Kabul and Mazari Sharif no longer speak Hazaragi but speak standard literary Persian (usually the Kābolī dialect) or regional varieties of Persian (for example the Khorāsānī dialect in the western region of Herat).
Until recently, a very small number of Hazaras near Herat still spoke the Moghol language, a Mongolic language once spoken by rebels against the Mongol armies of the Il-Khanat.
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