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Preferred term

qxqQashqa'i  

Type

  • Language

Definition

  • Qashqai (also spelled Ghashghai, Ghashghayi, Qashqa'i, and Qashqayi) is a Turkic language spoken by the Qashqai people, 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. The Qashqai language is closely related to Azerbaijani, and some linguists consider it to be a dialect of that language.

Entry terms

  • Qashqai language

ISO 639-3 code

  • qxq

Notation

  • qxq

In other languages

  • Kachkaï

    French

  • Kaschgaische Sprache

    German

  • Idioma kashgai

    Spanish

URI

http://lexvo.org/id/iso639-3/qxq

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