Luri language
| Luri | |
|---|---|
| Northern: لری Southern: لری | |
"Luri" written in both Northern Luri and Southern Luri in the Perso-Arabic script with the Nastaliq font | |
| Pronunciation | Southern Luri pronunciation: [loriː] |
| Native to | Iran; a few villages in eastern Iraq |
| Region | Southern Zagros Mountains |
| Ethnicity | Lurs |
Native speakers | 4–5 million (2012) 1.3 million (2007) |
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | Variously:lrc – Northern Luribqi – Bakhtiariluz – Southern Luri |
| Glottolog | luri1252 |
Luri (Northern Luri: لری, Southern Luri: لری) is a Southwestern Iranian language continuum spoken by the Lurs, an Iranian people native to West Asia. The Luri dialects are descended from Middle Persian and are Central Luri, Bakhtiari, and Southern Luri. This language is spoken mainly by the Bakhtiari and the Northern and Southern Lurs (Lorestan, Ilam, Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad, Mamasani, Sepidan, Bandar Ganaveh, Bandar Deylam) in Iran.