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Luri is a language spoken in southwestern Iran that belongs to the Iranian language family. It matters as part of the linguistic diversity of the region and as a way that communities in that area preserve their cultural and linguistic heritage.
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Key facts
- Pronunciation
- Southern Luri pronunciation: [ loriː ]
- Native to
- Iran ; a few villages in eastern Iraq
- Region
- Southern Zagros Mountains
- Ethnicity
- Lurs
- Native speakers
- 4–5 million (2012) 1.3 million (2007)
- Language family
- Indo-European Indo-Iranian Iranian Western Iranian Southwestern Iranian Luri– Dezfuli ? Luri
- Early forms
- Old Persian Middle Persian
- Dialects
- Central Luri (Minjai) Bakhtiari Southern Luri
- Writing system
- Persian alphabet
- Iso 639 3
- Variously:, lrc – Northern Luri, bqi – Bakhtiari , luz – Southern Luri
- Glottolog
- luri1252
via Wikipedia infobox
Article
Luri (لری) is a Southwestern Iranian language, existing as a dialect continuum, spoken by the Lur people in the Zagros Mountains of Iran. The Luri dialects are descended from Middle Persian and are Central Luri, Bakhtiari, and Southern Luri. This language is spoken mainly by the Bakhtiari and the Northern and Southern Lurs (Lorestan, Ilam, Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad, Mamasani, Sepidan, Bandar Ganaveh, Bandar Deylam) in Iran.
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