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.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Iranian language
Luri language variety
Western Iranian language
language variety
branchOf Southwestern Iranian languages NERFINISHED
closelyRelatedTo Central Luri NERFINISHED
Persian NERFINISHED
Southern Luri NERFINISHED
country Iran
endangermentStatus vulnerable
glottologCode nort2641
glottologName Northern Luri NERFINISHED
hasAlternativeName Lori-ye Shomali NERFINISHED
Luri-ye Shomali NERFINISHED
Northern Lori NERFINISHED
hasDialect Borujerdi Luri NERFINISHED
Khorramabadi Luri NERFINISHED
Luri of Kermanshah region NERFINISHED
Nurestani Luri NERFINISHED
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 language family
surface form: Indo-European languages

Indo-Iranian languages
linguisticStatus vernacular language of Lur communities
region Hamadan Province NERFINISHED
Ilam Province NERFINISHED
Kermanshah Province NERFINISHED
Khuzestan Province NERFINISHED
Lorestan Province NERFINISHED
script Arabic script
spokenBy Lur communities
Lurs NERFINISHED
spokenIn Iran NERFINISHED
spokenInRegion western Iran NERFINISHED
subdivisionOf Luri language NERFINISHED
usedFor everyday communication
folk music lyrics
oral literature
usesScriptVariant Perso-Arabic script
wordOrder SOV
writingSystem Persian alphabet NERFINISHED

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Luri hasDialect Northern Luri