[5] The three together paint a picture of balanced multilingualism in the community; each is dominant in certain aspects and recessive in others.

Turkic is numerically the city's dominant first language (L1)—unlike in the majority of the province where it is Bakhtiari—and is used together with Bakhtiari at home.

Nevertheless, the majority of people in Junqan are equally skilled in both Bakhtari and Turkic, regardless of which language they speak at home.

[5] Persian, the nation's official language, and both Turkic and Bakhtiari coexist in diglossic relationships in Junqan.

[5] At the time of the 2006 National Census, the city's population was 14,660 in 3,437 households, when it was in the Central District.