Bakhtiari Luri

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Bakhtiari Luri is a major Southwestern Iranian dialect spoken primarily by the Bakhtiari people of western and southwestern Iran.

All labels observed (4)

Label Occurrences
Bakhtiari dialect of Luri 2
Southern Luri 2
Bakhtiari Luri canonical 1

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Statements (45)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Iranian language variety
Luri dialect
Southwestern Iranian dialect
closelyRelatedTo Northern Luri
Persian
Southern Luri
consideredPartOf Luri macrolanguage
linked to: Luri language
country Iran
endangermentStatus vulnerable
ethnicAssociation Bakhtiari tribe
hasDialectalVariation local subdialects among Bakhtiari tribes
hasMorphologicalFeature ergative alignment in past transitive constructions
use of enclitic pronouns
hasPhonologicalFeature series of plain and aspirated stops
vowel system similar to other Luri varieties
ISO639Status not assigned a separate ISO 639-3 code
languageBranch Western Iranian
languageFamily Indo-Iranian languages
Iranian languages
lexicalSimilarity high lexical similarity with other Luri dialects
significant lexical overlap with Persian
linguisticResearchFocus dialectology
morphosyntax
phonology
primaryProvinces Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari Province
Isfahan Province
linked to: Isfahan region

Khuzestan Province
linked to: Khuzestan

Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad Province
Lorestan Province
region southwestern Iran
western Iran
script Arabic script
Persian alphabet
linked to: Perso-Arabic script
sociolinguisticSituation bilingualism with Persian common among speakers
spokenBy Bakhtiari people
linked to: Bakhtiari tribe
status primarily spoken language
subgroupOf Luri language continuum
Southwestern Iranian languages
Western Iranian languages
usedBy nomadic Bakhtiari groups
settled Bakhtiari communities
usedIn Bakhtiari epic poetry
Bakhtiari folk music
oral literature of Bakhtiari people
writingSystemDirection right-to-left

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Referenced by (6)

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

Luri language hasDialect Southern Luri
linked to: Bakhtiari Luri
Luri language hasDialect Bakhtiari Luri
Luri hasDialect Southern Luri
linked to: Bakhtiari Luri
Luri hasDialect Bakhtiari dialect
linked to: Bakhtiari Luri
Southwestern Iran language Bakhtiari dialect of Luri
subject linked to: southwestern Iran
linked to: Bakhtiari Luri
Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari Province language Bakhtiari dialect of Luri
linked to: Bakhtiari Luri