Qashqai dili written in Nastaliq script and Latin script
Native to
Iran
Region
Fars, Isfahan, Bushehr, Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari, Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad, Khuzestan
Ethnicity
2.0 million Qashqai (2021)[1]
Native speakers
1.0 million (2021)[1]
Language family
Turkic
Common Turkic
Oghuz
Southern Oghuz
Qashqai
Writing system
Persian alphabet
Language codes
ISO 639-3
qxq
Glottolog
qash1240
Linguasphere
Part of 44-AAB-a
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Qashqai (قشقایی ديلى, Qašqāyī dili, pronounced in English as /ˈkæʃkaɪ/KASH-ky, and also spelled Qaşqay, Qashqayi, Kashkai, Kashkay, Qašqāʾī[2][3] and Qashqa'i or Kaşkay) is an Oghuz Turkic language spoken by the Qashqai people, an ethnic group living mainly in the Fars Province of Southern Iran. Encyclopædia Iranica regards Qashqai as an independent third group of dialects within the Southwestern Turkic language group.[4] It is known to speakers as Turki.[5] Estimates of the number of Qashqai speakers vary. Ethnologue gave a figure of 1.0 million in 2021.[1]
The Qashqai language is closely related to Azerbaijani. However, some Qashqai varieties namely the variety spoken in the Sheshbeyli tribe share features with Turkish.[6][7] In a sociopolitical sense, though, Qashqai is considered a language in its own right.[8]
Like other Turkic languages spoken in Iran, such as the Azerbaijani language, Qashqai uses a modified version of the Perso-Arabic script.
^ abcQashqai at Ethnologue (26th ed., 2023)
^"Qašqāʾī Tribal Confederacy II: Language" at Encyclopædia Iranica, by Michael Knüppel
^"Azeri Turkish" at Encyclopædia Iranica, by Gerhard Doerfer
^"Qašqāʾi Tribal Confederacy II: Language" at Encyclopædia Iranica
^"Qašqāʾi Tribal Confederacy II: Language" at Encyclopædia Iranica
^Dolatkhah Sohrab. 2016. Kashkai : langue turcique d'Iran. Independently Published (via Amazon).
^Caferoglu & Gerhard Doerfer, 1959
^Csató, Éva; Johanson, Lars; Róna-Tas, András (2016). Turks and Iranians. Interactions in Language and History: The Gunnar Jarring Memorial Program at the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study. Harrassowitz Verlag. pp. 101–20. ISBN 978-3-447-10537-8.
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