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Qashqai

Fars and neighbouring provinces

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قشقایی

01The language

Codes
ISO 639-3: qxq · Glottocode: qash1240 · page code: qxq
Family
Turkic › Common Turkic › Oghuz › Nuclear Oghuz
Script
Arab, right to left
Interface
In preparation
Platform phase
By demand
Technology support
Low resource
Shown with
Vazirmatn

Sources Hammarström, Forkel, Haspelmath and Bank. Glottolog 5.3. Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. (2025) Verified; ISO 639-3 code tables. SIL International, registration authority. (2025) To verify

02Names and perspectives

  • قشقایی qashqāyi

03Where it is spoken, and by how many

Fars and neighbouring provinces

Unknown

Speakers: No speaker figure has been verified for this platform yet. It stays unknown until a census or survey figure is checked with its measure, year and source.

04Status

The UNESCO World Atlas of Languages is the United Nations source; its status is shown first and stays to verify until the Atlas can be read. Beside it, the Agglomerated Endangerment Status in Glottolog brings together the Catalogue of Endangered Languages, the UNESCO Atlas and Ethnologue. Ethnologue appears only as a secondary source.

EntryStatusBasisSource
UNESCO World Atlas of LanguagesTo verifyUNESCO. World Atlas of Languages. (2025) To verify
Qashqa’iNot endangered6a (Vigorous)Eberhard, Simons and Fennig (eds.). Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 28th edition. SIL International. (2025) Secondary source via Glottolog

05Varieties and dialects

Dialect groups as Glottolog records them. Names stay as published.

Qashqa’i

4 dialects recorded

  • Afsharic
  • Kashkay
  • Qazwin Turkic
  • Solayman-Abad Turkic

Sources Hammarström, Forkel, Haspelmath and Bank. Glottolog 5.3. Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. (2025) Verified

06This language’s pages

  • Writing

    Scripts, the alphabet chart, romanisation, numerals, keyboards and fonts.

  • Linguistics

    Sounds in IPA, pronunciation, grammar and core words compared with neighbouring languages.

  • Learn

    A pathway from first steps to fluency, courses, exams and heritage-language programmes.

  • Resources and preservation

    Dictionaries, corpora, libraries and media; endangerment and documentation; how to contribute.

07How to help

  • Native translators: translate the pages into Qashqai. This language gets human translation only.
  • Teachers and authors: help write the first Qashqai course.
  • Sources: point the research team to openly licensed dictionaries, corpora and recordings. Each enters the sources register for review.
  • Fonts and keyboards: report any letter that does not display or type correctly.

08Sources

  1. Hammarström, Forkel, Haspelmath and Bank. Glottolog 5.3. Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. 2025

    Verified CC BY 4.0 Classification, dialect groups and the Agglomerated Endangerment Status (AES), read 2026-10-23.

  2. UNESCO. World Atlas of Languages. 2025

    To verify Not reachable when checked on 2026-10-23. Its status for each language is to verify.

  3. Eberhard, Simons and Fennig (eds.). Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 28th edition. SIL International. 2025

    Secondary source Cited only as Glottolog reports it (its AES source). Ethnologue itself was not read.

Cite this page
APA

Iranian Diaspora Cooperation & Development Council. (2026). Qashqai. iranians.global. https://iranians.global/language/languages/qxq/

Chicago

Iranian Diaspora Cooperation & Development Council. 2026. “Qashqai.” iranians.global. https://iranians.global/language/languages/qxq/.

BibTeX
@misc{idcdc2026_language_languages_qxq,
	author = {{Iranian Diaspora Cooperation \& Development Council}},
	year = {2026},
	note = {Licence: CC BY 4.0},
	title = {Qashqai},
	url = {https://iranians.global/language/languages/qxq/},
	howpublished = {https://iranians.global/language/languages/qxq/},
}

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09Research and sources

Recent and relevant work on this page’s subject, from approved open scholarly sources. Metadata and links only. Titles stay as published. Not yet reviewed.

  1. sifollahaslani/qashqai-voice–mltilingual: QashqAI Voice – Initial Public Release

    sifollahaslani · 2026 · Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)

    SoftwareOpenAlexDataCiteZenodoOpen accessCC-BY

  2. Consuming traditional Qashqai dress in 21st century Iran: Space, place, and connectedness

    Zahra Falsafi · 2024 · Iowa State University

    ThesisCrossrefOpenAIRE

  3. Haplodrassus qashqai Zamani, Chatzaki, Esyunin & Marusik 2021

    Alireza Zamani, Farhad A. Khudhur, Yuri M. Marusik · 2024 · Zenodo

    ArticleDataCiteZenodoOpen accessCC0-1.0

  4. qashqai rug

    2021 · Fairchild Books

    OtherOpenAlexCrossref

  5. Infant-carrying mechanisms in a natural environment: the case of Qashqai nomad.

    Anvari Z, Berillon G, D’Août K et al. · 2024 · Evol Hum Sci

    ArticleEurope PMCDOAJOpen access

  6. Haplodrassus qashqai Zamani & Chatzaki & Esyunin & Marusik 2021, sp. nov.

    Alireza Zamani, Maria Chatzaki, Sergei L. Esyunin et al. · 2021 · Zenodo

    ArticleDataCiteZenodoOpen accessCC0-1.0

  7. A Bibliography Essay on Qashqai Turks

    Umut Başar · 2020 · Türkiyat Mecmuası

    ArticleDOAJOpen access

  8. QashqAI: Ethical AI Framework for Endangered Languages

    Siefollah Aslani · 2026 · Zenodo

    ReportDataCiteZenodoOpen accessCC-BY-4.0

  9. Musik der Qashqai – mit besonderer Berücksichtigung rezenter Entwicklungen

    Arghavan Atbaibaki · 2023

    ArticleOpenAIRE

  10. Qashqai Traditional Dress: An Oral History Project

    Zahra Falsafi, Kelly L. Reddy-Best · 2024 · Iowa State University Digital Press

    BookOpenAlexCrossrefOpen accessCC-BY-NC-ND

  11. Research in types of weave techniques Qashqai woven

    Mohammad Afrough, Fathali ghashghaeifr · 2018 · Dānishhā-yi būmī-i Īrān

    ArticleDOAJOpen access

  12. Nazim design of Qashqai Carpet in the process of changing lifestyle Qashqai nomads from migration to settlement case study : nazim design of carpet producing Cheshmeh Rahman and Golafshan camps

    Mohammad Afrough · 2020 · Dānishhā-yi būmī-i Īrān

    ArticleDOAJOpen access

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