| Qashqai | ||
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| Spoken in |  Iran |
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| Region | Fars | |
| Total speakers | 1,500,000 (1997) | |
| Language family | Altaic
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| Writing system | Perso-Arabic script | |
| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-1 | None | |
| ISO 639-2 | tut | |
| ISO 639-3 | qxq | |
Qashqai (also spelled Ghashghai, Ghashghayi, Qashqa'i, and Qashqayi) 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[1]. 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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