Turkic · ISO 639-3 qxq
Qashqa'i Language قاشقایجا
Qashqa'i is a Turkic language spoken by about 1.5 million people in 1 country. It is written in the Perso-Arabic script.
Where Qashqa'i is spoken
- Official language
- Regional official
- Spoken by 10%+
- 1–10%
- Smaller communities
Countries that speak Qashqa'i
Language family
- Turkic
- Common Turkic
- Oghuz
- Nuclear Oghuz
- Qashqa'i
Writing system
Perso-Arabic script
Related languages
About the Qashqa'i language
Qashqa'i (قاشقایجا) is spoken by about 1.5 million people, which makes it the 378th most spoken language in the world — just behind Eastern Apurímac Quechua (1.5 million) and ahead of Surgujia (1.5 million). It belongs to the Turkic language family and, more precisely, to the Nuclear Oghuz group within the Oghuz branch.
Where is Qashqa'i spoken?
Qashqa'i is used in 1 country. The largest communities live in Iran (1.5 million).
Qashqa'i is not a national official language anywhere.
Writing system and status
Qashqa'i is written in the Perso-Arabic script. It is a safe, widely transmitted language: children still learn it at home as their first language.
Its closest relatives in the same branch of the family are Turkish, South Azerbaijani, North Azerbaijani, Turkmen and Azerbaijani.
ISO codes: ISO 639-3 qxq.
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Data: Languages of the World dataset (MIT) — ISO 639-3, Glottolog (CC BY 4.0), Unicode CLDR, Google LinguaMeta (CC BY 4.0) and Wikidata; country lists: samayo/country-json (MIT). Speaker numbers include first- and second-language speakers where sources report them.