Laki language
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| Laki | ||
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| Spoken in: | Iran, Iraq | |
| Region: | Central Zagros | |
| Total speakers: | ca. 1,500,000. | |
| Language family: | Indo-European Indo-Iranian Iranian Western Northwestern Laki |
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| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-1: | none | |
| ISO 639-2: | – | |
| ISO 639-3: | lrc – Laki | |
| Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. | ||
Laki or Leki is a Kurdish dialect and is classified as northwestern Iranian language[1] [2]. Laki is spoken in the central Zagros region of Iran (provinces of Ilam, Lorestan, Kermanshah, Hamedan, Qazvin, and Khuzestan) by the Laks. It is also spoken in Iraq.
Zayn al-‘Ābidīn Shīrvānī, the writer of the Persian geographic work Bustān al-siyāha (“The Garden of the travel”) in 19th century introduces the Laks as a Lur tribe. In our own times Īzadpanāh, the writer of the Laki-Persian dictionary, emphasizes the Luri identity of the Laks and calls it a misunderstanding to consider the Laks as a part of the Kurds.[3]
[edit] References
- ^ Kurdish language - Britannica Online Encyclopedia
- ^ Ethnologue report for language code:lki
- ^ Īzadpanāh, H., Farhang-i Lakī, Tehran: Mu’assisa-yi Farhangī-yi Jahāngīrī, 1367 Hš, p. xl.
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