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, as well as members of the Maqtajeri diaspora across Astyria.

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."