Qashqai language

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Qashqai Qaşqaycə; Qaşqay dili
Spoken in:	Iran
Region:	Fars
Total speakers:	1,500,000
Language family:	Altaic Turkic Oghuz Azerbaijani Qashqai
Language codes
ISO 639-1:	none
ISO 639-2:	`tut`
ISO 639-3:	`qxq`
Image:Azerbaijani languages.PNG Map showing locations of Azerbaijani and related languages: North Azerbaijani (blue), South Azerbaijani (red), Salchuq (green), Qashqa'i (brown), Afshari (purple)

Qashqai (also spelled Ghashghai, Qashqa'i, Qashqay, and Kashkai) is a Turkic language. It is spoken by the Qashqai, an ethnic group living mainly in the Fars region of Iran. Estimates of the number of Qashqai speakers varies, but 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 Azerbaijani in Iran, Qashqai uses the Persian modification of the Arabic alphabet. The Qashqai also speak Persian, and use it as their literary language like all Iranians.

v • d • e Altaic languages
Turkic languages • Mongolic languages • Tungusic languages • Japonic languages* • Korean language*
Notes: *Japonic and Korean are not generally recognized as belonging to the Altaic language family. See also Buyeo languages.

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Oghur	Bulgar† \| Chuvash \| Hunnic† \| Khazar† \| Turkic Avar†
Uyghur	Old Turkic† \| Aini²\| Chagatai† \| Ili Turki \| Lop \| Uyghur \| Uzbek
Kypchak	Altay \| Baraba \| Bashkir \| Crimean Tatar¹ \| Cuman† \| Karachay-Balkar \| Karaim \| Karakalpak \| Kazakh \| Kipchak† \| Krymchak \| Kumyk \| Kyrgyz \| Nogai \| Old Tatar† \| Tatar \| Urum¹
Oghuz	Afshar \| Azerbaijani \| Crimean Tatar¹ \| Gagauz \| Khorasani Turkic \| Ottoman Turkish† \| Pecheneg† \| Qashqai \| Salar \| Turkish \| Turkmen \| Urum¹
Arghu	Khalaj
Northeastern	Chulym \| Dolgan \| Fuyü Gïrgïs \| Khakas \| Shor \| Tofa \| Tuvan \| Western Yugur \| Sakha/Yakut
Notes: ¹Listed in more than one group, ²Mixed language, ³Disputed, †Extinct