Qashqai is an Oghuz Turkic language spoken by the Qashqai people, an ethnic group living mainly in the Fars province of Southern Iran. Encyclopædia Iranica regards Qashqai as an independent third group of dialects within the Southwestern Turkic language group. It is known to speakers as Turki. Estimates of the number of Qashqai speakers vary. Ethnologue gave a figure of 1.0 million in 2021. It is usually written in the Nastaliq hand of the Perso-Arabic alphabet. It is closely related to Khorasani Turkic, Azeri, Turkish, Türkmen, Gagauz, and Chaharmahali Turkic.

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