Luri language

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Luri
Spoken in:	Iran, Oman
Region:	Southern Zagros (Mainly: Lorestan province.)

Total speakers:	ca. 3.3 million
Language family:	Indo-European Indo-Iranian Iranian Western Southwestern Luri
Language codes
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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Luri or Lori (Persian: لُری, 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. Some linguists categorize the Luri dialects as a sub-group of Persian dialects. Some other sources such as SIL Ethnologue categorize them as the dialects of a distinct language, close to Persian, and call it Luri language.

The special character of the Luri dialects suggests that the Luri area was Iranicized from Persia and not from Media.^[1]

SIL Ethnologue lists four Luri dialects,

Northern Luri [lrc], ca. 1,500,000 speakers as of 2001
Bakhtiari [bqi], ca. 1,000,000 speakers as of 2001
Southern Luri [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.

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

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