“…Of special interest are the zeros of the classical families of hypergeometric orthogonal polynomials, which have been fruitfully analyzed e.g. through Sturm-Liouville theory and via Stieltjes' electrostatic interpretation [S75,ALM82,FR86,G87,ELR94,G98,I00,MMM07,JT09,DJ12,ADGR12,ADGP13,S16]. In this work we are mainly concerned with estimates for the locations of the zeros of some well-studied (basic) hypergeometric orthogonal polynomial families belonging to the (q−)Askey scheme [AW85, KLS10], while other relevant issues concerning these zeros, such as e.g.…”