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| Lori | ||
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| Spoken in: | Iran,Iraq , Oman, Germany | |
| Region: | Southern Zagros (Mainly: Lorestan province.) | |
| Total speakers: | ca. 3.3 million | |
| Language family: | Indo-European Indo-Iranian Iranian Western Southwestern Lori |
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| ISO 639-1: | None | |
| ISO 639-2: | – | |
| ISO 639-3: | variously: lrc – Northern Luri bqi – Bakhtiari luz – Southern Luri zum – Kumzari |
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Lori or Luri (Lori/Persian: لری, IPA: /loriː/, /luriː/) is a collection of southwestern Iranian dialects which are mainly spoken by the Lurs and Bakhtiari people in the Iranian provinces of Lorestan, Ilam, Chahar Mahaal and Bakhtiari, Kohkiluyeh and Buyer Ahmad and parts of Khuzestan, Fars, Markazi, Kermanshah, Isfahan, and Hamadan. Linguists categorize the Lurish as a distinct language close to Persian.
The special character of the Lurish language suggests that the Lurish area was Iranicized from Persia and not from Media.12
SIL Ethnologue lists four Lurish language dialects,
- Northern Lurish [lrc], ca. 1,500,000 speakers as of 2001
- Bakhtiari [bqi], ca. 2.3,000,000 speakers as of 2001
- Southern Lurish [luz], ca. 875,000 speakers as of 1999
- Kumzari [zum], spoken in the Musandam Peninsula of northern Oman, ca. 1,700 speakers as of 1993.
See also
References
- Lecoq P. Les dialectes du sud-ouest de l'Iran // Compendium Linguarum Iranicarum. Wiesbaden, 1989.
- ^ Yar-Shater, Ehsan. 1982. Encyclopaedia Iranica. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul. V, p. 617a
- ^ Houtsma, M. T., 1987. E.J. Brill's First Encyclopaedia of Islam, 1913-1936. Published by BRILL. p. 41. ISBN 9004082654, ISBN 9789004082656
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