Luri language

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Luri language is a Southwestern Iranian language spoken primarily by the Lur people in western and southwestern Iran.

All labels observed (3)

Label Occurrences
Luri language canonical 3
Laki language 1
Luri languages 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (47)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Indo-European language
Indo-Iranian language
Iranian language
Southwestern Iranian language
Western Iranian language
closelyRelatedTo Bakhtiari dialect
Persian language
developedFrom Middle Persian
ethnicGroup Lurs
hasAlternativeName Lori
Lori language
Luri
hasDialect Bakhtiari Luri
Central Luri
Northern Luri
Southern Luri
linked to: Bakhtiari Luri
hasLexicalInfluenceFrom Arabic language
linked to: Arabic

Persian language
hasMorphologicalFeature use of enclitic pronouns
hasPhonologicalFeature series of voiceless and voiced stops
hasStatus regional language in Iran
hasSyntacticFeature predominantly SOV word order
ISO639-3Code bqi
lrc
luz
languageFamily Indo-European languages
Indo-Iranian languages
Iranian languages
partOf Western Iranian branch
primaryCountry Iran
region Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari Province
Fars Province
Khuzestan Province
linked to: Khuzestan

Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad Province
Lorestan Province
scriptDirection right-to-left
sharesFeaturesWith Kurdish languages
linked to: Kurdish language

Persian language
spokenBy Lur people
linked to: Lurs
spokenIn Iran
southwestern Iran
western Iran
subgroupOf Southwestern Iranian languages
usedIn folk music of Lur people
oral literature of Lur people
writingSystem Arabic script
Persian alphabet
linked to: Perso-Arabic script

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (5)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Iranian languages hasMajorLanguage Luri language
Northwestern Iranian languages hasMajorSubgroup Laki language
linked to: Luri language
Lurs language Luri language
Semnani languages distinctFrom Luri languages
linked to: Luri language