
Nader was a Qizilbash from the semi-nomadic Qirqlu clan of the Turkoman Afshar tribe who migrated from Central Asia to Azerbaijan as a result of the 13th-century Mongol invasion. During the reign of Shah Abbas I, a portion of the tribe was relocated from Azerbaijan to Khorasan, the birthplace of Nader, in order to protect Khorasan from Uzbek attacks. Nader's native tongue was a southern Oghuz dialect, i.e. "Turkish of Azerbaijan". Although he later learned Persian, he always preferred using Turkic in everyday speech. He learned to read and write as an adult
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