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	Qashqai language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Qashqai (also spelled Ghashghai, Qashqa'i, Qashqay, and Kashkai) is a Turkic language.
		It is spoken by the Qashqai, an ethnic group living mainly in the Fars region of Iran.
		The Qashqai language is closely related to Azerbaijani, and some linguists actually consider it to be a dialect of that language.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Qashqai_language (121 words)

	Qashqai - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The traditional nomadic Qashqai travelled with their flocks each year from the summer highland pastures north of Shiraz roughly 480 km or 300 mi south to the winter pastures on lower (and warmer) lands near the Persian Gulf, to the southwest of Shiraz.
		Historically, the Qashqai came from Central Asia, and were probably among the Turkic groups that arrived in Iran in the 11th or 12th centuries.
		The Qashqai were a significant political force in Iran during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Qashqai (520 words)

	QASHQAI.NET : Poetry
		His mother was a Qashqai Turk, from the Qaderlu section (subtribe) of the Amaleh tribe of the Qashqai tribal confederacy.
		The Qashqai is made up of the Turkic-speaking tribal groups that lived in Fars before the sixteenth century as well as those who came to Fars in the coming centuries, up to the nineteenth.
		Qashqai poetic arts, like its woven arts, are rich and complex; they are products of centuries of intermingling of the creative endeavors of various individuals and communities.
	www.qashqai.net /poems/mazun.html (1935 words)

	Iran And Ghashgahies
		The heyday of Qashqai prominence on the Iranian scene was during the 19th and the early years of the 20th centuries.
		Geographically, the Qashqais are located in the Zagros Mountain range that stretches across the entire southwestern edge of the plateau.
		Qashqai men, well known for their skills as horsemen and herders, wear a typical Qashqai felt hat with rims considerably raised over the top.
	www.persianguy.20m.com /custom4.html (1016 words)

	Turkish Language Encyclopedia Article @ GipsyPrincess.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The Turkish family is a subgroup of the Oghuz languages, themselves a subgroup of the Turkic languages, which most linguists believe to be member of an Altaic language family.
		Turkish is the official language of Turkey, and is one of the official languages of Cyprus.
		The Turkish Language Foundation was influenced with the ideology that the purity of the language had to be preserved by expunging words and grammatical constructions of Persian and Arabic (see below for more on replacing old words).
	www.gipsyprincess.com /encyclopedia/Turkish_language (2285 words)

	Ghashghai ( Qashqa'i ) Nomads of Iran Development Project - Details about theGhashghai -
		The Qashqa'i (pronounced Gosh-guy-ee) nomads of Iran are Turkic-speaking shepherds.
		Qashqa’i marriages, which link the camps and herding groups together, are arranged by the women.
		Qashqa'i children are taught in Farsi by teachers who live and travel with the families.
	www.nomadplace.com /qashqai/Ghashghai-Details.htm (627 words)

	QASHQAI.NET : The Qashqai (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The Qashqai compose a community of settled, semi-settled, and pastoral nomadic households who reside mainly in the Fars region of southern Iran.
		The Qashqai, as a large tribal confederacy, composed of pastoral nomadic housefolds, dates back at least to the early eighteenth century, when some Turkish(Turki)-speaking tribal groups in the Fars region existed under the name Qashqai and leadership of the head(s) of a certain lineage called Shahilu.
		Qashqai population of today is estimated between one and one and a half million.
	www.qashqai.net /qashqai.html (284 words)

	Azerbaijani language - (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Some dialects of the language are spoken in many parts of Iran (but most notably in the northwestern areas, known as Iranian Azerbaijan), where it is the most dominant language and lingua franca for minority languages to the area such as Kurdish, Armenian and Taleshi.
		It is a Turkic language of Oghuz branch, closely related to Turkish and also historically influenced by Persian and Arabic languages.
		The term "Azeri language" is also sometimes used to refer to a dialect of the Tat language spoken in Azerbaijan.
	www.exchangegrid.com /mediawiki/index.php/Azeri_language (966 words)

	[Qashqai] \| [All the best Qashqai resources at msn.silvertopics.com] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		A close relationship appears to have existed at one time between the Qashqai and the Khalaj, one branch of whom made its way to Azerbaijan and Anatolia, and another branch of whom settled down in the area known as Khalajestan in Central...
		In the 19th century, the Qashqai (Qashqai) tribal confederacy was so powerful that, at times, it was able to defy the authority of the central government.
		Qashqai HISTORY The Qashqa'i began entering Iran from central Asia in the 11th...
	msn.silvertopics.com /Qashqai (831 words)

	Qashqai language - TheBestLinks.com - Arabic alphabet, Ethnologue, Persian language, Iran, ...
		Qashqai language - TheBestLinks.com - Arabic alphabet, Ethnologue, Persian language, Iran,...
		Qashqai language, Arabic alphabet, Ethnologue, Persian language, Iran, Language...
		Qashqai is a Turkic language and uses the Arabic-Persian alphabet.
	www.thebestlinks.com /Qashqai_language.html (142 words)

	Qashqai - Qashqai (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The traditional nomadic Qashqai travelled with their flocks each year from an summer highland pastures north of Shiraz roughly 480 km or 300 mi south to an winter pastures on lower (and warmer) lands near an Persian Gulf, to an southwest of Shiraz.
		However, according to an Columbia Encyclopedia, an Qashqai, for well for other migrant ethnic groups of an region, are of an "least mixed descent of an original Iranians."[2] The Qashqai were the significant political force in Iran during an late 19th with early 20th centuries.
		Qashqai carpets with weavings Qashqai caravan halt.jpg The Qashqai are noted of their magnificent pile carpets with other woven wool products.
	cannabis.blogsilla.com /Qashqai (665 words)

	THE MIDDLE EAST HANDBOOK - PEOPLE GROUPS
		Their language is different to all other Turkic languages and belongs to the Bulgar group of the western Turkic languages.
		The northern Tigre speak the Semitic Tigre language, are mainly nomads, and live in the arid lowlands of north and east Eritrea and southeast Sudan.
		Their language is classed with Mingrelian in the Zan (Colchian) branch of the Kartvelian (South Caucasian) languages, and is related to Georgian and Svan.
	www.angelfire.com /az/rescon/MEHBKPPL.html (10341 words)

	iranian.com: Fouad Kazem, Persian today
		Persian is an old Indo-Iranian language in the larger family of Indo-European languages which includes Hindi, English, Urdu, French, Russian, Spanish, German, etc. Today it is the official language of Iran (Persia), Afghanistan, and Tajikstan.
		It was the language of the Hakhamaneshid, the Persian Empire of Cyrus and Darius.
		English, a Germanic language at its base, became a half Latin language in its vocabulary, because of Roman and French invasions of the last 2000 years.
	www.iranian.com /Opinion/2005/January/Persian (2597 words)

	IRAN YELLOW PAGES - Iranian infomation at your fingertip (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Qashqais are nomads who live in the deserts of southwest Iran.
		Most of the Azarbaijanis are concentrated in the northwestern corner of the country, where they form the majority population in an area between the Caspian Sea and Lake Urmia and from the Soviet border south to the latitude of Tehran.
		Their language, Azarbaijani (also called Azeri or Turkish), is structurally similar to the Turkish spoken in Turkey but with a strikingly different accent.
	www.iranyellowpages.net /EN/about_iran/Culture/people_grouping/people_grouping01.shtm (533 words)

	Turkic languages - Psychology Central
		The Turkic languages constitute a language family of some thirty languages, spoken across a vast area from Eastern Europe to Siberia and Western China with an estimated 140 million native speakers and tens of millions of second-language speakers.
		The Turkic languages are traditionally considered to be part of the Altaic language family.
		Geographically and linguistically, the languages of Southwestern, Northwestern, and Southeastern subgroup belong to the central Turkic languages, while the Northeastern, Khalaj language is the so-called peripheral language.
	psychcentral.com /psypsych/Turkic_language (401 words)

	:::► Dictionary of Meaning www.mauspfeil.net ◄:::
		The Turkish family is a subgroup of the Oghuz Turks Oghuz languages, themselves a subgroup of the Turkic languages, which most linguists believe to be member of an Altaic languages Altaic language family.
		Turkish is the official language of Turkey, and is one-although today it is less spoken- of the official languages of Cyprus.
		In Turkey, the Turkish Language Society (''Türk Dil Kurumu'') was founded by Kemal Ataturk Kemal Atatürk in 1932 as the ''Türk Dili Tetkik Cemiyeti'' ("Society for the Investigation of the Turkish Language"), an independent body.
	www.mauspfeil.net /Turkish_language.html (1427 words)

	The Unreached Peoples Prayer Profiles
		The fact that the Qashqa'i are "travelers" seems to add to their military, political, and cultural identity.
		In fact, the Qashqa'i who "settle" are seen by others within their group as people who lack an interest in political matters.
		The Qashqa'i live in a constant state of political unrest, and there is a tremendous need for true, inner peace.
	www.global12project.com /2004/profiles/p_code/1943.html (740 words)

	Turkic Branch of the Altaic Language Family
		Turkic languages are a group of closely related languages spoken by people spread across a vast area from Eastern Europe to Siberia and Western China.
		Languages spoken on the territory of the former Soviet Union have a large number of Russian loanwords.
		All languages in this group are considered to be Category II in terms of difficulty for speakers of English.
	www.nvtc.gov /lotw/months/march/TurkicBranch.html (195 words)

	Persian & Iranian Nomads at Best Iran Travel.com
		Most of the tribes of Central Iran are pure Aryan, while others such as the Arabs of Khuzestan and Khorassan, the Qashqai, the Turkmen (decendants of Mongols), Shahsevan and Afshar tribes of Azarbaijan had ancestors who passed through Iran.
		The largest tribal groups are the Kurds, who live in the province of Kurdestan in the northern Zagros region, the Lurs and the Bakhtiari, who live in the southern Zagros region, the Qashqai in Fars, the Turkoman in the northeast, and the Baluch in the southeast.
		The Qashqai are a Turkish-speaking tribe of pastoral nomads in southern Iran.
	www.bestirantravel.com /culture/history/nomads.html (533 words)

	Qashqai language: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Qashqai still uses the Arabic alphabet (The alphabet of 28 characters derived from Aramaic and used for writing Arabic languages (and borrowed for writing Urdu))
		Chagatai language (The chagatai language is an extinct turkic language spoken in central asia....)
		Altay language (The altay language is a language of the turkic group of languages....)
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /ref/qashqai_language (690 words)

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		The scrips are all of the same basic type, though with considerable variations.]]} {north-indic, definition, [[The north indic scripts are the scripts derived from the northern branch of Ashokan brahmi.
		The language written is the local dialect, but the script is an ideographic script.
		The language(s) is not Indo-European, and is not understood.]]} {north-iberian, description, [[This script seems to have been derived from the South Iberian script, although this is not known for certain.
	www.ontopia.net /omnigator/docs/i18n.ltm (931 words)

	Iranians (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Numerous languages are spoken in Iran, yet all of them originate from the same linguistic roots.
		The Iranian language group is part of a larger Indo-Iranian language subfamily and accounts for some of the oldest-recorded Indo-European languages.
		The Indo-Iranian languages originated around modern-day Afghanistan, and split into the Iranian, Indo-Aryan, Dardic, and Nuristani language groups as the speakers of Proto-Indo-Iranian moved west, east, and south.
	www.wwwtln.com /finance/105/iranians.html (969 words)

	Demographics of Iran: Encyclopedia topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The remainder are primarily Turkic (Turkic: A subfamily of Altaic languages) (such as the Qashqai (Qashqai: qashqai (also spelled ghashghai, qashqay, kashgai and qashqai)....
		The 1979 Islam (Islam: The monotheistic religion of Muslims founded in Arabia in the 7th century and based on the teachings of Muhammad as laid down in the Koran) ic revolution and the war with Iraq transformed Iran's class structure politically, socially, and economically.
		Languages: Persian and Persian dialects (Persian and Persian dialects: more facts about this subject) (AKA Farsi) 58%, Turkic and Turkic dialects (Turkic and Turkic dialects: the turkic languages are a group of closely related languages that are spoken by a variety...
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /reference/demographics_of_iran (749 words)

	Azeri language resources
		The historical, cultural, and social roots of the language, a map showing where it is spoken, basic...
		Azeri or Azerbaijani is a Turkic language with about 8 million speakers in Azerbaijan, 32 million speakers in north-western Iran, and a further 6 million speakers in Georgia and Russian...
		Azeri The Azeri language belongs to the southwestern (Oguz) branch of the Turkic language family.
	www.mongabay.com /indigenous_ethnicities/languages/languages/Azeri.html (1400 words)

	Turkish Language - Turkish language (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The Turkish family is the subgroup of an Oghuz languages, themselves the subgroup of an Turkic languages, which most linguists believe to be member of an Altaic language family.
		Official status Turkish is an official language of Turkey, with is one of an official languages of Cyprus.
		The Turkish Language Foundation is influenced with an ideology that an purity of an language had to be preserved by expunging words with grammatical constructions of Persian with Arabic (see below of more on replacing old words).
	henry.blogiston.com /henry403/1675/Bayezid_I/Turkish_language (1887 words)

	Articles - Iran (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The majority of Iran's population speak one of the Iranian languages, though Persian is the official language.
		The number of native speakers of Persian language in Iran is estimated around 70 million, (see: Persian people) (Ethnologue using an obsolete and old information claims that in 1997 there were 22 million native speakers of Persian language spoken in Iran).
		The Persian language being used for over 2,500 years has left distinct marks in the history of the written word.
	www.centralairconditioners.net /articles/Iran (3080 words)

	Daily Calendar for the PSW (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Good relationships are being established with various institutions in the areas of Iran where the Azeri people live—ask God to provide residence visas that will allow believers to live out their faith among the Azeris.
		Pray for a new house group meeting in the Turkmen language that is struggling to grow stronger.
		The language which they speak is very old and may no longer be used.
	www.teampsw.org /subpages/prayer/calendar/archive/july.htm (2292 words)

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