Luric language

Lurish or Lori
Spoken in	Iran , Oman
speaker	3,600,000 [1] [2] [3] [4]
Linguistic classification	Indo-European languages Indo-Iranian languages Iranian languages Western Iranian Southwest Iranian Luric language
Official status
Recognized minority / regional language in	Iran
Language codes
ISO 639 -1	-
ISO 639 -2	ira
ISO 639-3	Dialects: lrc - Northern Lori bqi - Bakhtiari to the - Kumzari luz - Southern Lori

Lurian areas

Lurian ( Persian لرى Lorī , IPA: / loriː /, / luriː /) is adialect clusterclosely relatedtoPersian, which belongs to thesouthwest group of Iranian languages, to which Persian is also counted.

Some researchers see this cluster as a subset of Persian. By the beginning of the 20th century, fewer than 150 words of the language were known in the West and Lurian was still considered a Kurdish dialect in 1901 , especially since Kurdish tribes live in Lorestan . It was not until an essay by O. Mann in 1904 that the “deeper divide” between Kurdish and Lurian was revealed. Lurian is found regionally parallel to Bachtiarisch and Leki .

Lurish is mainly spoken in the Iranian provinces of Lorestan , Ilam , Tschahār Mahāl and Bachtiyāri , Kohgiluye and Boyer Ahmad, as well as in parts of Khuzestan and Isfahan .

SIL Ethnologue lists the following dialects:

• Northern Lori [lrc], approx. 1.5 million speakers (2001)
• Bachtiari [bqi], approx. 1 million speakers (2001)
• Southern Lori [luz], approx. 875,000 speakers (1999)
• Kumzari [zum], spoken on the Musandam peninsula and the offshore island of Jazīrat Umm al-Ghanam in Nordoman, approx. 1,700 speakers (1993)
• A large group of Lurs also speak Leki , which according to some linguists is not a Kurdish but a Lurian dialect.

See also

• Bakhtiars

Web links

Wikipedia on Northern Luri

Test Wikipedia in Bakhtiarian

Test Wikipedia on Southern Luri

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  Lurs in Iran by province
  Colin MacKinnon: Lori dialects . In: Ehsan Yarshater (Ed.): Encyclopædia Iranica (English, including references)
• Northern Luri
• Bakhtiari
• Kumzari
• Southern Luri

Individual evidence

1. ^ William J. Frawley, William Frawley, International Encyclopedia of Linguistics & 4-Volume Set, Volume 1, Oxford University Press, 2003, ISBN 978-0-19-513977-8 , p. 310.
2. ^ Albrecht Klose, Languages ​​of the World , De Gruyter, 2001, ISBN 978-3-598-11404-5 , p. 227.
3. ^ B. Grimes (ed.), 'Luri', in Ethnologue (13th edition) (Dallas, 1996), p. 677; M. Ruhlen, A Guide to the World's Languages ​​(Stanford, 1991), p. 327.