Laki language

Laki
Kurdish: لەکی, Lekî
Native toIran
RegionProvinces of Hamadan, Ilam, Lorestan and Kermanshah in Iran, and scatteredly elsewhere in Iran
EthnicityKurds (Lak tribe), Hasanvand
Native speakers
680,000 (2021)
Perso-Arabic script
Language codes
ISO 639-3lki
Glottologlaki1244
Linguasphere58-AAC-aac

Laki (Kurdish: له‌کی, romanized: Lekî, Persian: لکی) is a vernacular that consists of two dialects; Pish-e Kuh Laki and Posht-e Kuh Laki. Laki is considered a Kurdish dialect, by most linguists and is spoken chiefly in the area between Khorramabad and Kermanshah in Iran by about 680,000 native speakers.