Achomi
Sign in to saveAlso known as Khodmoni, Lari, Larestani, Achomi language, Kilari
Iranian language spoken in the south of Iran
Key facts
- Native to
- Iran United Arab Emirates Bahrain Kuwait Oman Qatar Saudi Arabia
- Region
- Irahistan (Parts of Fars , Hormozgan , Bushehr , Kerman )
- Ethnicity
- Achum ( Ajam )
- Native speakers
- 120,000 (2021)
- Language family
- Indo-European Indo-Iranian Iranian Western Southwestern Old Persian Middle Persian Larestani
- Early form
- Middle Persian (Pahlavi)
- Dialects
- Lari Khouri Evazi Khonji Gerashi Kurdehi Ashkanani Lengeyi Ashnezi Ruydari Aheli Bandari (Bander Abbas)
- Writing system
- Persian alphabet
- Iso 639 3
- lrl
- Glottolog
- lari1253
- Elp
- Lari
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Achomi (Persian: اچُمی), also known as Larestani, is a Southwestern Iranian language derived from Middle Persian (Parsig) and spoken by the Achomi people in southern Fars and western Hormozgan and by significant numbers of Ajam citizens in the UAE, Bahrain, Kuwait, and other neighbouring countries.
It is the predominant language of Khur, Gerash, Larestan, Lamerd, Khonj, and Evaz counties in Fars and Bastak County and Ruydar in Hormozgan province.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Achomi” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.