Key facts
- Native to
- Iran
- Region
- Provinces of Hamadan , Ilam , Lorestan and Kermanshah in Iran, and scatteredly elsewhere in Iran
- Ethnicity
- Kurds ( Lak tribe )
- Native speakers
- 680,000 (2021)
- Language family
- Indo-European Indo-Iranian Iranian Western Iranian Northwestern Iranian Kurdish Laki
- Writing system
- Perso-Arabic script
- Iso 639 3
- lki
- Glottolog
- laki1244
- Linguasphere
- 58-AAC-aac
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- vernacular
- Subclass of
- Kurdish
- Country
- Iran
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- number of speakers, writers, or signers
- 1500000
- Wikimedia language code
- lki
- topic's main category
- Category:Laki language
- writing system
- Arabic script
- indigenous to
- Zagros Mountains
- dialect of
- Kurdish
- Wikimedia Incubator URL
- incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/lki
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Encyclopedic overview
Laki (Kurdish: لهکی, romanized: Lekî, Persian: لکی) is a language variety that consists of two major sub-varieties: Pish-e Kuh Laki and Posht-e Kuh Laki. Laki is considered a Kurdish dialect by many linguists and is spoken chiefly in the area between Khorramabad and Kermanshah in Iran by about 680,000 native speakers.
Geography
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Laki” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.