Qashqai people
| Qashqai | |
|---|---|
| Qashqay, Kashkai, Kashkay, Qashqayi | |
| قشقايی, Qašqāyī | |
 Qashqai Turkish nomad in a camp | |
| Native to | Iran |
| Region | Fars, Isfahan, Bushehr, Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari, Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad, Khuzestan |
| Ethnicity | Qashqai |
Native speakers | 1.6–2.5 million (2015)[1][2] |
Turkic
| |
| Persian alphabet | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | qxq |
| Glottolog | qash1240 |
| Linguasphere | Part of 44-AAB-a |
Qashqai (قشقایی, also spelled Qaşqay, Qashqayi, Kashkai, Kashkay, Qašqāʾī[3][4] and Qashqa'i or Kaşkay) is an Oghuz Turkic group of people living mainly in the Fars Province of Southern Iran.
Language
[change | change source]Their language is regarded as an independent third group of dialects within the Southwestern Turkic language group by the Encyclopædia Iranica.[5] It is known to speakers as Turki.[6] Estimates of the number of Qashqai speakers vary between 1.6–2.5 million.[1][2]
Origin
[change | change source]The Qashqai are thought to trace its origins to the Bronze Age tribe Kashka/Kaska (also Kaška or Kaskian) of the Ancient Near East.[7]
References
[change | change source]- 1 2 Victoria R. Williams: Indigenous Peoples: An Encyclopedia of Culture, History, and Threats to Survival. 4 Bände. ABC-CLIO, 2020, p. 895.
- 1 2 Muhittin Çelik, Hüseyin Gökçe (2021): Kaşkayların Türk Kültürü İçerisindeki Yeri [The Position of Qashqais in Turkish Culture], Journal of Oghuz Turkish Studies, doi:10.52817/oguztad.980646
- ↑ Qašqāʾī Tribal Confederacy II: Language at Encyclopædia Iranica, by Michael Knüppel
- ↑ Azeri Turkish at Encyclopædia Iranica, by Gerhard Doerfer
- ↑ Qašqāʾi Tribal Confederacy II: Language at Encyclopædia Iranica
- ↑ Qašqāʾi Tribal Confederacy II: Language at Encyclopædia Iranica
- ↑ H.M. Hubey: "A Story of Life & Death and Love & War", in: Studia Turkologia, Воронежский Тюркологический сворник [Voronezh Türkological Symposium], Voronezh, 2008. - Vol.7-8. page 57.
