Qashqai language

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Qashqai
Spoken in	Iran
Region	Fars
Total speakers	1,500,000 (1997)
Language family	Altaic Turkic Oghuz Azerbaijani Qashqai
Writing system	Perso-Arabic script
Language codes
ISO 639-1	None
ISO 639-2	tut
ISO 639-3	qxq

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Qashqai (also spelled Ghashghai, Ghashghayi, Qashqa'i, and Qashqayi) is a Turkic language spoken by the Qashqai, an ethnic group living mainly in the Fars region of Iran. Estimates of the number of Qashqai speakers vary, Ethnologue gives a figure of one and a half million^[1]. The Qashqai language is closely related to Azerbaijani, and some linguists consider it to be a dialect of that language.

Like South Azerbaijani in Iran, Qashqai uses the Persian modification of the Arabic alphabet. The Qashqai also speak Persian, and use it as their literary language.

1. ^ http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=qxq

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