Lur language
| Luri | |
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| لُری | |
| Pronunciation | Persian pronunciation: [loriː] |
| Native to | Iran; a few villages in eastern Iraq. |
| Region | Southern Zagros |
| Ethnicity | Lurs |
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Native speakers
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13 million (2012) |
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| ISO 639-3 | Variously: |
| Glottolog | luri1252 |
Luri languages. (Note: Iraqi distribution corresponds to that of Southern Kurdish.)
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Luri or Lurish (Luri: لۊری) is a Western Iranian language continuum spoken by the Lurs in Western Asia. Luri forms five language groups known as Feyli, Central Luri, Bakhtiari,Laki and Southern Luri. This language is spoken mainly by the Feyli Lurs, Bakhtiari and Southern Lurs (Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad, Mamasani, Sepidan, Bandar Ganaveh, Deylam) of Iran and beyond.
The Luri dialects are descended from Middle Persian (Pahlavi). They belong to the Persid or Southern Zagros group, and are lexically similar to modern Persian, differing mainly in phonology.
According to the Encyclopædia Iranica, "All Lori dialects closely resemble standard Persian and probably developed from a stage of Persian similar to that represented in Early New Persian texts written in Perso-Arabic script. The sole typical Lori feature not known in early New Persian or derivable from it is the inchoative marker (see below), though even this is found in Judeo-Persian texts". The Bakhtiāri dialect may be transitional between Kurdish and Persian. However, there was never a common ancestor to Luri. There are two distinct languages, Greater Luri (Lor-e bozorg), a.k.a. Southern Luri (including Bakhtiari dialect), and Lesser Luri (Lor-e kuček), a.k.a. Northern Luri.
Lur peoples of Iran are mainly in provinces of Lorestan, Ilam Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari, Fars province (especially Mamasani and Rostam), Khuzestan, Esfahan province and Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad and some of this people live in provinces as like as Hamadan province, Qom province, Qazvin province, Gilan province and Kerman province. A Lur population, known locally as Feyli people, exists in eastern parts of Iraq.
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