Bakhtiari Luri

E522300

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

Try in SPARQL Jump to: Surface forms Statements Referenced by

All labels observed (4)

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

Statements (45)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Iranian language variety
Luri dialect
Southwestern Iranian dialect
closelyRelatedTo Northern Luri NERFINISHED
Persian
Southern Luri NERFINISHED
consideredPartOf Luri macrolanguage NERFINISHED
country Iran
endangermentStatus vulnerable
ethnicAssociation Bakhtiari tribe NERFINISHED
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 NERFINISHED
lexicalSimilarity high lexical similarity with other Luri dialects
significant lexical overlap with Persian
linguisticResearchFocus dialectology
morphosyntax
phonology
primaryProvinces Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari Province NERFINISHED
Isfahan Province NERFINISHED
Khuzestan Province NERFINISHED
Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad Province NERFINISHED
Lorestan Province NERFINISHED
region southwestern Iran NERFINISHED
western Iran NERFINISHED
script Arabic script
Persian alphabet NERFINISHED
sociolinguisticSituation bilingualism with Persian common among speakers
spokenBy Bakhtiari people NERFINISHED
status primarily spoken language
subgroupOf Luri language continuum NERFINISHED
Southwestern Iranian languages
Western Iranian languages NERFINISHED
usedBy nomadic Bakhtiari groups
settled Bakhtiari communities
usedIn Bakhtiari epic poetry
Bakhtiari folk music
oral literature of Bakhtiari people
writingSystemDirection right-to-left

Referenced by (5)

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

Luri language hasDialect Bakhtiari Luri
this entity surface form: Southern Luri
Luri language hasDialect Bakhtiari Luri
Luri hasDialect Bakhtiari Luri
this entity surface form: Southern Luri
Luri hasDialect Bakhtiari Luri
this entity surface form: Bakhtiari dialect
southwestern Iran language Bakhtiari Luri
subject surface form: Southwestern Iran
this entity surface form: Bakhtiari dialect of Luri