Zalqintili

Zalqintili
Native to	Maqtajer Kuwazavkavan
Native speakers	approx. 23 million (2015)
Language family	Turkic Kipchak Zalqintili
Writing system	Latin script
Language codes
ISO 639-3	zlq
Glottolog	None

Zalqintili (meaning language of the people) is a Turkic language native to Maqtajer, in southwestern Sythith. It is spoken by the majority of Maqtajeri people and by ethnic Maqtajeris in neighbouring Kuwazavkavan.

Literature

Rustam a-Paşmi, 10th-century poet

Zalqintili vernacular literature includes an extensive body of poetry written in the language since the mid-first millennium AD. The ninth-century collection The Thirty Nights offers a romantic poem for each phase of the moon (which phases formed the basis for the ancient Maqtajeri calendar). The Lay of the Waters, attributed to the tenth-century poet Rustam a-Paşmi, is a collection of odes to each of the rivers of Maqtajer and has been described as "the most beautiful writing in all Zalqintili."