Qashqai language
| 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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unknown (1.5 million cited 1997)[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] [4] Qashqa'i, and Qashqayi) is a Southern Oghuz or Western Oghuz Turkic language spoken by the Qashqai people, an ethnic group living mainly in the Fars region of Iran. In the Encyclopaedia Iranica Qashqai is also regarded as an independent third group of dialects within the southwestern Turkic languages.[5] It is known to speakers as Turki.[6] Estimates of the number of Qashqai speakers vary. Ethnologue gives a figure of 1.5 million.[1] 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
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Qashqai at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ Qašqāʾī tribal confederacy: Language at Encyclopædia Iranica, by Michael Knüppel
- ↑ Azeri Turkish at Encyclopædia Iranica, by Gerhard Doerfer
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ Qašqāʾi Tribal Confederacy, Encyclopaedia Iranica
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Qashqai language test of Wikipedia at Wikimedia Incubator |
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