Qashqai language

Qashqai
Qaşqay dili
Native to	Iran
Region	Fars , Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari , Isfahan
Ethnicity	Qashqai
Native speakers	1.5 million (1997)^[1]
Language family	Turkic Oghuz Azerbaijani Qashqai
Writing system	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 Western Oghuz Turkic language spoken by the Qashqai people, an ethnic group living mainly in the Fars region of Iran. It is known to speakers as Turki.^[5] Estimates of the number of Qashqai speakers vary. Ethnologue gives a figure of 1.5 million.^[6] 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

^ Qashqai at Ethnologue (17th ed., 2013)
^ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Qashqa'i". Glottolog 2.2. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
^ Qašqāʾī tribal confederacy: Language at Encyclopædia Iranica, by Michael Knüppel
^ Azeri Turkish at Encyclopædia Iranica, by Gerhard Doerfer
^ Qašqāʾi Tribal Confederacy, Encyclopaedia Iranica
^ Ethnologue report

Turkic languages

Italics indicate extinct languages

Arghu	Khalaj

Karluk	Aini¹ Chagatai Ili Turki Lop Uyghur Uzbek

Kipchak	Ponto-Caspian (Crimean Tatar Cuman Karachay-Balkar Karaim Kipchak Krymchak Kumyk Urum²) Aralo-Caspian (Altai Siberian Tatar Fergana Kipchak Karakalpak Kazakh Kyrgyz Nogai) Uralo-Caspian (Bashkir Old Tatar Tatar)

Oghur	Bulgar Chuvash Khazar Turkic Avar²

Oghuz	Afshar Azerbaijani Crimean Turkish Gagauz Balkan Gagauz Turkish Khorasani Turkic Old Anatolian Turkish Ottoman Turkish Pecheneg² Qashqai Salar (Anatolian) Turkish Turkmen Urum²

Siberian	Chulym Dolgan Fuyu Kyrgyz Khakas Old Turkic Old Uyghur Shor Tofa Tuvan Sakha/Yakut Western Yugur²

¹ Mixed language. ² Classification disputed.

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Qashqai language