Qashqai language

Qashqai
Qaşqay dili
Native to Iran
Region Fars, Isfahan, Bushehr, Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari, Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad, Khuzestan
Ethnicity Qashqai
Native speakers
 949,000 (2015)
Turkic
Persian
Language codes
ISO 639-3 qxq
Glottolog qash1240[1]
Linguasphere part of 44-AAB-a

Qashqai (also spelled Qashqay, Kashkai, Kashkay, Qašqāʾī,[2][3] and Qashqa'i) 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 gives a figure of 949,000 in 2015.[6]

The Qashqai language is closely related to Azerbaijani, also known as Azeri. However, some Qashqai varieties namely the variety spoken in the Sheshbeyli tribe share features with Turkish, too.[7] Some linguists argue that it is a dialect of Azerbaijani.[8] In a sociopolitical sense, though, Qashqai must be considered as a language on its own right.[9]

Like other Turkic languages spoken in Iran, such as the Azerbaijani language, Qashqai uses a modified version of the Perso-Arabic script.

References

  1. ↑ 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.
  2. ↑ Qašqāʾī Tribal Confederacy II: Language at Encyclopædia Iranica, by Michael Knüppel
  3. ↑ Azeri Turkish at Encyclopædia Iranica, by Gerhard Doerfer
  4. ↑ Qašqāʾi Tribal Confederacy II: Language at Encyclopædia Iranica
  5. ↑ Qašqāʾi Tribal Confederacy II: Language at Encyclopædia Iranica
  6. ↑ "Kashkay". Ethnologue.
  7. ↑ Dolatkhah Sohrab. 2016. Le qashqay: langue turcique d'Iran. CreateSpace: Independent Publishing Platform
  8. ↑ Caferoglu & Gerhard Doerfer, 1959
  9. ↑ 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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