Luri Language
| Lurish | |
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| لوری | |
| 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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5 million (2012) |
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| ISO 639-3 | Variously: lrc – Central Lurish bqi – Bakhtiari Lurish luz – Southern Luri |
| Glottolog | luri1252 |
Luri languages. (Note: Iraqi distribution corresponds to that of Southern Kurdish.)
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Luri also Lurish is a Western Iranian language continuum spoken by the Lurs in Western Asia. Lurish language forms five language groups known as Feyli lurish, Central Lurish (Minjaee), Bakhtiari,Laki and the Southern Lurish. This language is spoken mainly by the Feyli Lurs (including Minjai, Maleki and Laks), Bakhtiaries and Southern Lurs (Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad, Mamasani, Sepidan, Bandar Ganaveh, Deylam).
The Luri language is derived and 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 Lors (Lor-e bozorg), a.k.a. Southern Luri (including Bakhtiari dialect), and Lesser Lors (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. Identified as Feylis, A large crowd of Lurs is located in Eastern parts of Iraq
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