Qashqai leid

Qashqai
Kaşqay dili
Native tae	Iran
Region	Fars, Isfahan, Bushehr, Chaharmahal an Bakhtiari, Kohgiluyeh an Boyer-Ahmad, Khuzestan
Ethnicity	Qashqai
Native speakers	949,000 (2015)[1]
Leid faimily	Turkic Common Turkic Oghuz Wastren Oghuz Soothwastren Oghuz Qashqai
Writin seestem	Persie alphabet
Leid codes
ISO 639-3	qxq
Glottolog	qash1240[1]
Linguasphere	pairt o 44-AAB-a

Qashqai (an' a' spelled Qashqay, Kashkai, Kashkay, Qashqa'i, an Qashqayi) is a Turkic leid spaken bi the Qashqai, an ethnic group livin mainly in the Fars region o Iran. Estimates o the number o Qashqai speakers vary, Ethnologue gives a figure o 923,000^[2]. The Qashqai language is closely relatit tae Azerbaijani, an some linguists actually consider it tae be a dialect o that leid.

Like Sooth Azerbaijani in Iran, Qashqai uises the Persian modification o the Arabic alphabet. The Qashqai an' a' speak Persian, an uise it as their literary leie.

1. ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Qashqa'i". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
2. ↑ Ethnologue report