Northern Luri

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Northern Luri is a major variety of the Luri language spoken by Lur communities in western Iran, distinguished by its own phonological and lexical features.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Northern Luri canonical 7

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Statements (48)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Iranian language
Luri language variety
Western Iranian language
language variety
branchOf Southwestern Iranian languages
closelyRelatedTo Central Luri
Persian
Southern Luri
country Iran
endangermentStatus vulnerable
glottologCode nort2641
glottologName Northern Luri
hasAlternativeName Lori-ye Shomali
Luri-ye Shomali
linked to: Kuhgiluyeh Lurs

Northern Lori
hasDialect Borujerdi Luri
Khorramabadi Luri
Luri of Kermanshah region
Nurestani Luri
linked to: Luri
hasFeature aspirated and unaspirated stops in some dialects
postpositions rather than prepositions
rich set of verbal prefixes and suffixes
vowel length distinctions
hasLexicalFeatures distinct from other Luri varieties
hasMorphology largely analytic with some agglutinative features
hasPhonologicalFeatures distinct from other Luri varieties
hasPhonology shares features with Kurdish and Persian
ISO639-3Code lrc
languageFamily Indo-European languages
Indo-Iranian languages
linguisticStatus vernacular language of Lur communities
region Hamadan Province
linked to: Hamedan Province

Ilam Province
Kermanshah Province
Khuzestan Province
linked to: Khuzestan

Lorestan Province
script Arabic script
spokenBy Lur communities
Lurs
spokenIn Iran
spokenInRegion western Iran
subdivisionOf Luri language
usedFor everyday communication
folk music lyrics
oral literature
usesScriptVariant Perso-Arabic script
wordOrder SOV
writingSystem Persian alphabet
linked to: Perso-Arabic script

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Referenced by (7)

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

Luri hasDialect Northern Luri
Central Luri hasDialectContinuumWith Northern Luri
Central Luri closelyRelatedTo Northern Luri
Bakhtiari Luri closelyRelatedTo Northern Luri
Northern Luri glottologName Northern Luri
Luric languages hasDialects Northern Luri
Lor hasLanguage Northern Luri