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Qashqai
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Turkic language spoken by the Qashqai people, an ethnic group living mainly in the Fars region of Iran
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Within Vinony's link graph, Qashqai is referenced by 281 other articles, and connects out to Uzbek, Uzbeks and Turkey.
Vinony files it under Agglutinative languages, Ill-formatted infobox-language images and Language articles citing Ethnologue 26.
Its subject is documented across 48 Wikipedia language editions.
Key facts
- Native to
- Iran
- Region
- Fars , Isfahan , Bushehr , Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari , Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad , Khuzestan
- Ethnicity
- 2.0 million Qashqai (2021)
- Native speakers
- 1.0 million (2021)
- Language family
- Turkic Common Turkic Oghuz Southern Oghuz Qashqai
- Writing system
- Persian alphabet
- Iso 639 3
- qxq
- Glottolog
- qash1240
- Linguasphere
- Part of 44-AAB-a
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- modern language
- Country
- Iran
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- writing system
- Arabic alphabet
- number of speakers, writers, or signers
- 995000
- linguistic typology
- agglutinative language
- indigenous to
- Hormozgan Province
- exact match
- turkic.elegantlexicon.com/lx.php?lx=qsh
- native label
- قشقایی
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Encyclopedic overview
Qashqai (قشقایی ديلى, Qašqāyī dili, pronounced in English as /ˈkæʃkaɪ/ KASH-ky, and also spelled Qaşqay, Qashqayi, Kashkai, Kashkay, Qašqāʾī and Qashqa'i or Kaşkay) is an Oghuz Turkic language spoken by the Qashqai people, an ethnic group living mainly in the Fars province of Southern Iran. Encyclopædia Iranica regards Qashqai as an independent third group of dialects within the Southwestern Turkic language group. It is known to speakers as Turki. Estimates of the number of Qashqai speakers vary. Ethnologue gave a figure of 1.0 million in 2021. It is usually written in the Nastaliq hand of the Perso-Arabic alphabet. It is closely related to Khorasani Turkic, Azeri, Turkish, Türkmen, Gagauz, and Chaharmahali Turkic.
The Qashqai language is closely related to Azerbaijani. However, some Qashqai varieties, namely the variety spoken in the Sheshbeyli tribe, share features with Turkish. In a sociopolitical sense, though, Qashqai is considered a language in its own right.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Qashqai” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.