Luri language

Spoken in

  • Indo-European languages Indo-Iranian languages Iranian languages Westiranisch Southwest - Iranian Lurische language

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Lurisch (Persian لرى: Lori, IPA: / lori ː /, / luri ː / ) is a Persian dialect cluster of closely related, belonging to the South-West group of the Iranian languages ​​, which also includes Persian is expected.

Many researchers see these clusters as a subgroup of the Persian. Until the early 20th century, less than 150 words of the language in the West were known and Lurisch was still considered as a Kurdish dialect in 1901, especially since Kurdish tribes living in Lorestan. Only one essay O. Mann in 1904 revealed to " deeper divorce" of Kurdish and Lurisch. Lurisch found regionally parallel to Bachtiarisch and Laki.

Lurisch is mainly spoken in the Iranian provinces of Lorestan, Ilam, Chahar Mahal and Bachtiyārī, Kohkiluyeh and Buyer Ahmad and parts of Khuzestan and Esfahan.

SIL Ethnologue lists the following dialects:

  • Northern Luri [ lrc ], about 1.5 million speakers (2001)
  • Bakhtiari [ BQI ], about 1 million speakers (2001)
  • Southern Luri [ luz ], approximately 875,000 speakers (1999)
  • Kumzari [to ] speak to the Musandam Peninsula in northern Oman, about 1,700 speakers (1993 )
Language family Ilam Province Khuzestan Province SIL International Lurs Bakhtiari people Kumzari dialect Integrated Authority File
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