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Qashqai

Turkic language spoken by the Qashqai people, an ethnic group living mainly in the Fars region of Iran
Class type of: Southern Oghuz Q13192

Facts

9 properties
Instance of
natural language, modern language[3]
Country
Iran[2]
Subclass of
Southern Oghuz[4]
Ethnologue language status
6a Vigorous[13]
Indigenous to
Isfahan Province, Bushehr Province, Fars Province, Hormozgan Province[9][10][11][12]
Linguistic typology
subject–object–verb, agglutinative language[14][15]
Native label
قشقایی[8]
Number of speakers, writers, or signers
+923000, +995000[6][7]
Writing system
Arabic alphabet[5]
🏷️ Also known as
en Ghashghayi en Qashqa'i en Qashqai en Qashqayi en Qashqai language en Ghashghai ar القشقائية ar اللغة القشقائية ar قشقائية de kaschgaische Sprache de Kaschgaisch es Idioma kashgai es kashgai fa زبان قشقایی fi kaškai fi kaškain kieli fr kachkaï he קשקאית hi क़शक़ाई भाषा id bahasa Qashqai
🔖 Identifiers · 12
Library of Congress authority ID
sh2015002029
GND ID
1153433702
Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID
topic/Qashqai
Ethnologue.com language code
qxq
Exact match
publications.europa.eu, turkic.elegantlexicon.com
Freebase ID
/m/03gg_5
Glottolog code
qash1240
IETF language tag
qxq
ISO 639-3 code
qxq
National Library of Israel J9U ID
987007414131705171
OmegaWiki Defined Meaning
545974
Yale LUX ID
concept/45c7fe34-ad82-4206-8750-c721169dcdad

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🔗 Connections
← Language used 7
Iran, Fars Province, Isfahan Province, Hormozgan Province, Bushehr Province, Haftkel County, Saman County
Indigenous to 4
Fars Province, Isfahan Province, Hormozgan Province, Bushehr Province
Instance of 2
natural language, modern language
Linguistic typology 2
agglutinative language, subject–object–verb
Country 1
Iran
Writing system 1
Arabic alphabet
← Language of work or name 1
Nastaʿlīq
← Languages spoken, written or signed 1
Qashqai people
← Native language 1
Qashqai people
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Summary

Qashqai is a natural language[1].

Related Entities

Iran

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . scriptsource.org. Retrieved . scriptsource.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . iso639-3.sil.org. iso639-3.sil.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . iranicaonline.org. iranicaonline.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . Ethnologue. wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . ethnologue.com. ethnologue.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [13] ↑ . Ethnologue. Retrieved . ethnologue.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  13. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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  1. 23w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-23 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Indigenous to → Isfahan Province, Bushehr Province, Fars Province +1
    Number of speakers, writers, or signers → {'amount': '+923000'}, {'amount': '+995000'}
    Ethnologue language status → 6a Vigorous
    Instance of → natural language, modern language
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