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
Southern Luri 2
Bakhtiari Luri canonical 1
Bakhtiari dialect 1

How this entity was disambiguated

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 ⓘ

How these facts were elicited

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