Luri language

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Not to be confused with Luri language (Nigeria).
Luri
لوری
Pronunciation Persian pronunciation: [loriː]
Native to Iran; a few villages in eastern Iraq[1][2]
Region Southern Zagros
Ethnicity Lurs
Native speakers
 5 million (2012)[3]
Dialects
Northern Luri
Southern Luri
Language codes
ISO 639-3 Variously:
lrc – Northern
bqi – Bakhtiari
luz – Southern
Glottolog luri1252[5]
Lurish Language Map.png
Luri languages. (Note: Iraqi distribution corresponds to that of Southern Kurdish.)

Luri is either of a pair of Southwestern Iranian languages spoken mainly by the Lur and Bakhtiari peoples of the Iranian provinces of Lorestan, Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari, Fars province (especially Mamasani), Khuzestan, Esfahan province and Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad. They descend from Middle Persian (Pahlavi).[6][6][7] They belong to the Persid or Southern Zagros group, and are lexically similar to modern Persian, differing mainly in phonology.[8]

There was no common ancestor to Luri. There are instead two distinct languages, Greater Lors (Lor-e bozorg), a.k.a. Southern Luri (including Bakhtiari and Minjai dialects), and Lesser Lors (Lor-e kuček), also known as Northern Luri.[9]

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, though even this is found in Judeo-Persian texts".[9] There are transitional dialects between Bakhtiāri Lori and Southern Kurdish, and indeed Bakhtiari itself may be transitional between Lori and Kurdish.[10]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Northern Luri at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. ↑ Historical Dictionary of Iraq
  3. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  4. ↑ Gernot Windfuhr, 2009, "Dialectology and Topics", The Iranian Languages, Routledge
  5. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 Erik John Anonby, "Update on Luri: How many languages?" // Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society (Third Series), volume 13, issue 02, Jul 2003, pp 171–197.
  7. ↑ Don Stillo, "Isfahan-Provincial Dialetcs" in Encyclopædia Iranica. Excerpt: "While the modern SWI languages, for instance, Persian, Lori-Baḵtiāri and others, are derived directly from Old Persian through Middle Persian/Pahlavi".
  8. ↑ Bakhtiari tribe and the Bakhtiari dialect[dead link], Encyclopædia Iranica.
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 [1]
  10. ↑ Kurdish language, Encyclopædia Iranica.

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