Basseri dialect

Basseri Persian
باصری/باسری
PronunciationPārsi-e Bāseri
Native toIran
RegionPars
EthnicityBasseri Persians
Language codes
ISO 639-3
Glottologbass1257
Distribution of Basseri people in Iran

Basseri dialect (Persian: گویش باصری) is a Persian or Southwestern Fars dialect spoken in Fars province by the Basseri people. It is part of the Southwestern Iranian branch of the Indo-Iranian group of Indo-European languages. Basseri dialect consists of many exclusive Persian words with Old and Middle Persian roots and less Arabic Loanwords, which is a consequence of living in the mountains, nomadism and less connection with urban Persians.