Qashqai language
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| Qashqai Qaşqaycə; Qaşqay dili |
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| Spoken in: | Iran | |
| Region: | Fars | |
| Total speakers: | 1,500,000 | |
| Language family: | Altaic Turkic Oghuz Azerbaijani Qashqai |
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| ISO 639-1: | none | |
| ISO 639-2: | tut | |
| ISO 639-3: | qxq | |
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Qashqai (also spelled Ghashghai, Qashqa'i, Qashqay, and Kashkai) is a Turkic language spoken by the Qashqai, an ethnic group living mainly in the Fars region of Iran. Estimates of the number of Qashqai speakers vary, Ethnologue gives a figure of one and a half million. The Qashqai language is closely related to Azerbaijani, and some linguists consider it to be a dialect of that language.
Like South Azerbaijani in Iran, Qashqai uses the Persian modification of the Arabic alphabet. The Qashqai also speak Persian, and use it as their literary language.
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