Zargari is a dialect of Balkan Romany, spoken in Zargar region (Abyek district) of the Qazvin

Qazvin

Qazvin is the largest city and capital of the Province of Qazvin in Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 349,821, in 96,420 families....

 Province of in Iran

Iran

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. They could be found in Afghanistan

Afghanistan

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 and Pakistan

Pakistan

Pakistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan is a sovereign state in South Asia. It has a coastline along the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Oman in the south and is bordered by Afghanistan and Iran in the west, India in the east and China in the far northeast. In the north, Tajikistan...

 as well.

The UCLA Language Materials Project describes Zargari (or Morghuli) as a Persian-based "secret language of artistans", whereas other sources associate the language with goldsmiths.

External links

• Hassan Rezai Baghbidi. The Zargari Language: An Endangered European Romani in Iran