Claim: Afshar dialect, which is native to Turkey, Iran, Syria, and Turkmenistan, belongs to the Turkic language family.
Evidence: Afshar or Afshari (Azerbaijani: Əfşar türkcəsi, افشار تورکجه‌سی‎, Әфшар түркҹәси; Turkish: Afşar dili or Afşarca) is a Turkic dialect spoken in Turkey, Iran, Syria, Turkmenistan and parts of Afghanistan by the Afshars. The Turkic languages are a language family of at least 35 documented languages, spoken by the Turkic peoples of Eurasia from Southern Europe, Eastern Europe, the Caucasus, Central Asia and Western Asia all the way to North Asia (particularly in Siberia) and East Asia.