Qashqai people

Qashqai (قشقایی, also spelled Qaşqay, Qashqayi, Kashkai, Kashkay, Qašqāʾī and Qashqa'i or Kaşkay) is an Oghuz Turkic group of people living mainly in the Fars Province of Southern Iran. 
Language.
Their language is regarded as an independent third group of dialects within the Southwestern Turkic language group by the "Encyclopædia Iranica". It is known to speakers as Turki. Estimates of the number of Qashqai speakers vary between 1.6–2.5 million. 
Origin.
The Qashqai are thought to trace its origins to the Bronze Age tribe "Kashka/Kaska" (also "Kaška or Kaskian") of the Ancient Near East.