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

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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 language
surface form: Middle Persian
ethnicGroup Lurs
hasAlternativeName Lori
Lori language
Luri
hasDialect Bakhtiari Luri
Central Luri
Southwestern Iranian languages
surface form: Northern Luri

Bakhtiari Luri
surface form: Southern Luri
hasLexicalInfluenceFrom Arabic
surface form: Arabic language

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 language family
surface form: Indo-European languages

Indo-Iranian languages
Iranian languages
partOf Western Iranian branch
primaryCountry Iran
region Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari Province
Fars Province
Khuzestan
surface form: Khuzestan Province

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

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

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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 Luri language
this entity surface form: Laki language
Lurs language Luri language
Semnani languages distinctFrom Luri language
this entity surface form: Luri languages