Qashqai language
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| Qashqai | |
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| Qaşqay dili | |
| Native to | Iran |
| Region | Fars, Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari, Isfahan |
| Ethnicity | Qashqai |
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Native speakers
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923,000 (2014)[1] |
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Turkic
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| Persian | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | qxq |
| Glottolog | qash1240[2] |
| Linguasphere | part of 44-AAB-a |
Qashqai (also spelled Ghashghai, Ghashghayi, Qašqāʾī,[3][1] 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.[4] It is known to speakers as Turki.[5] Estimates of the number of Qashqai speakers vary. Ethnologue gives a figure of 923,000 in 2014.[6] The Qashqai language is closely related to Azerbaijani, and some linguists[further explanation needed] consider it to be a dialect of that language.[1]
Like the Azerbaijani language in Iran, Qashqai uses the Persian modification of the Arabic script.
Notes[edit]
- ^ a b c Azeri Turkish at Encyclopædia Iranica, by Gerhard Doerfer
- ^ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Qashqa'i". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- ^ Qašqāʾī tribal confederacy: Language at Encyclopædia Iranica, by Michael Knüppel
- ^ "QAŠQĀʾI TRIBAL CONFEDERACY ii. LANGUAGE". In: Encyclopaedia Iranica. Retrieved 13 May 2015.
- ^ Qašqāʾi Tribal Confederacy, Encyclopaedia Iranica
- ^ Ethnologue
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