Qashqai language
| Qashqai | |
|---|---|
| Qaşqay dili | |
| Native to | Iran |
| Region | Fars, Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari, Isfahan |
| Ethnicity | Qashqai |
Native speakers | 923,000 (2014)[1] |
Turkic
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| Persian | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | qxq |
| Glottolog | qash1240 |
| Linguasphere | part of 44-AAB-a |
Qashqai (also spelled Ghashghai, Ghashghayi, Qašqāʾī,[1][2] Qashqa'i, and Qashqayi) is a Oghuz Turkic language spoken by the Qashqai people, an ethnic group living mainly in the Fars region of southern Iran. In the Encyclopaedia Iranica Qashqai is also regarded as an independent third group of dialects within the southwestern Turkic languages.[3] It is known to speakers as Turki.[4] Estimates of the number of Qashqai speakers vary. Ethnologue gives a figure of 923,000 in 2014.[5] The Qashqai language is closely related to Azerbaijani, and some linguists consider it to be a dialect of that language.
Like the Azeri language in Iran, Qashqai uses the Persian modification of the Arabic script.
Notes
- ^ "Qašqāʾī tribal confederacy: Language" at Encyclopædia Iranica, by Michael Knüppel
- ^ "Azeri Turkish" at Encyclopædia Iranica, by Gerhard Doerfer
- ^ "QAŠQĀʾI TRIBAL CONFEDERACY ii. LANGUAGE". In: Encyclopaedia Iranica. Retrieved 13 May 2015.
{{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in:|publisher=(help) - ^ Qašqāʾi Tribal Confederacy, Encyclopaedia Iranica
- ^ Ethnologue
