Editing Moghol language (section)

{{Short description|Possibly extinct Mongolic language}}
{{Infobox language
| name             = Moghol
| altname          = Mogholi, Mogul, Mongul, Mongolen
| states           = [[Afghanistan]]
| region           = [[Herat Province]]
| ethnicity        = [[Moghol people|Moghols]]
| speakers         = 
| date             = 
| ref              = <ref>{{cite web|title=The ASJP Database - Wordlist Moghol|url=https://asjp.clld.org/languages/MOGHOL|access-date=2025-01-09|website=asjp.clld.org|quote=status extinct since 2013}}</ref>
| familycolor      = Altaic
| fam1             = [[Mongolic languages|Mongolic]]
| iso3             = mhj
| glotto           = mogh1245
| glottorefname    = Mogholi
| script           = [[Persian alphabet|Perso-Arabic script]]
| nativename       = {{lang|mhj|{{Script|Arab|مُغُلی}}}}
| speakers2        = 200 (2003)<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.unesco.org/languages-atlas/index.php|title=UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in danger|website=www.unesco.org|publisher=[[UNESCO]]|language=en|access-date=2018-01-01}}</ref>
| extinct          = 2013
| dia1             = Karez-I-Mulla
| dia2             = Kundur
| map              = Linguistic map of the Mongolic languages.png
| mapcaption       = {{legend|#EB7385|Moghol}}
| mapscale         = 1.25
| map2             = Lang Status 20-CR.svg
| mapcaption2      = {{center|{{small|Moghol is classified as Critically Endangered by the [[UNESCO]] ''[[Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger]]''}}}}
}}
'''Moghol''' (or '''Mogholi'''; {{langx|prs|[[wikt:مُغُلی|مُغُلی]]}}) is a critically endangered and possibly extinct [[Mongolic languages|Mongolic language]] spoken in the province of [[Herat Province|Herat]], [[Afghanistan]], in the villages of [[Kundur, Afghanistan|Kundur]] and [[Karez-i-Mulla]]. The speakers were the [[Moghol people]], who numbered 2,000 members in the 1970s. They descend from the remnants of [[Genghis Khan]]'s Mongol army stationed in Afghanistan in the 13th century.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Sayed Zaki Faqerzai |date=n.d. |title=Language of Speaking in Afghanistan |url=http://www.asiafront.com/news/698/language_of_speaking_in_afghanistan.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140413124432/http://www.asiafront.com/news/698/language_of_speaking_in_afghanistan.html |archive-date=2014-04-13 |access-date=2014-04-12 |website=AsiaFront.com}}</ref>

In the 1970s, when the German scholar Michael Weiers did fieldwork on the language, few people spoke it, most knew it passively and most were older than 40. It is unknown if there are still speakers of the language,<ref name=Weiers>Weiers, Michael. 2003. "Moghol," ''The Mongolic Languages''. Ed. Juha Janhunen. Routledge Language Family Series 5. London: Routledge. Pages 248–264.</ref> and it is listed as dormant by Ethnologue.<ref name="e18">{{cite web|url=https://www.ethnologue.com/18/language/mhj/ |title=Moghol |edition=18 |year=2015 |publisher=[[Ethnologue]] |url-access=subscription}}</ref>

The language has been strongly influenced by [[Persian language|Persian]] in its phonology, morphology and syntax, causing Weiers to state that it has the appearance of a "true Inner Asian [[creole language]]".<ref name=Weiers/>