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لکی

لکی · Arab script, written right to left. Spoken in Lorestan, Ilam and Kermanshah.

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lki · Arab · right to left · on request

Language · lki · Iranian, Northwestern · on request

لکی

لکی · Arab script, written right to left. Spoken in Lorestan, Ilam and Kermanshah.

See the courses

On the mapWhere spokenrecordedCourses1
داسہ
اکیڈمی126 کورس، ہنوز ہچ اسٹ داخلہ کن پاچ افشہری3 مہم، 5 پروگرامورثہسانبھنگ کن 116 دے، 40 تاریخ وار اندراجخبراک88 منظور مسونا ماخذ، تصدیق مسونا تقریباک ہنوز افشاخاکجوڑ مننگ ٹی. ہنوز ہچ اسٹ تسلیم متنے
ScriptArabright to lefton request

Record

lki
لکیLaki · Arab
Code
lki
Family
Iranian, Northwestern
Where
Lorestan, Ilam and Kermanshah
Phase
on request
کوریج
not yet measured
Codes are BCP 47 language and script subtags.

Courses that teach it

1 in the catalogue
GilakiIDCDC-LNG-02 · Planned, outline not written yet
پاچ کبو
Courses from the Academy catalogue; a course opens for enrolment one by one after review.

Writing

2 scripts

Its own names

لەکیlekî
right to left

رسم الخط

Arab
Persian alphabetا ب پ ت ث ج چ ح
32 letters
Arab34 letters
  • Laki is written in the Kurdish Arabic-based alphabet or in the Persian alphabet. There is no agreed standard.
Names in the language's own writing; each sample keeps its direction.

Resources

1 resource
Glottolog: Lakireference · Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology · checked 2026-10-23
تصدیق شدہ
Each resource shows whether its link was checked. A resource without a checked link is labelled to verify.

Linguistics

family, dialects, sounds and standing
Family
Indo-European, then Classical Indo-European, then Indo-Iranian, then Iranian-Nuristani, then Iranian, then Central Iranian PBS, then Central Iranian PB, then Northwestern Iranian, then Laki-Kurdish
Codes
ISO 639-3 lki · Glottolog laki1244
Dialects
Laki: groups not recorded (0 listed in all)
Standing
Laki: not endangered (6a (Vigorous)) ثانوی
Laki-Kurdish
تصدیق شدہ
تصدیق کبو، ماخذ گچ کبو یا رپورٹ کبو
دا عدد نا چیک کننگ ٹی کمک کبو

دانا گڈ انت مریک. اسٹ نگران نما نوٹ ءِ خوانیک و ماخذ ءِ چیک کیک. صفحہ اوڑ آن گڈ بدل مریک. نما پن ہلنگ پک.

Classification

Classification is debated. Glottolog places Laki beside Kurdish in a Laki-Kurdish group. Fattah groups Laki with the Southern Kurdish dialects. Speakers' own views differ.

to verify · Hammarström, Forkel, Haspelmath and Bank. Glottolog 5.3. Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.; Fattah. Les dialectes kurdes méridionaux. Acta Iranica 37. Peeters.

Speakers

نامعلوم
پیمانہ
speakers
سال
درج متنے
ماخذ
ہنوز ہچ ماخذ اف. نن نامعلوم پیش کینہ، اندازہ اف.
حالت
نامعلوم
تصدیق کبو، ماخذ گچ کبو یا رپورٹ کبو
دا عدد نا چیک کننگ ٹی کمک کبو

دانا گڈ انت مریک. اسٹ نگران نما نوٹ ءِ خوانیک و ماخذ ءِ چیک کیک. صفحہ اوڑ آن گڈ بدل مریک. نما پن ہلنگ پک.

No speaker figure has been verified for this platform yet. It stays unknown until a census or survey figure is checked with its measure, year and source.

Classification and standing from the sources named on each line. Where views differ, each view is shown with its sources.

ہیل کبو

1 course
1
GilakiIDCDC-LNG-02 · Planned, outline not written yet
A course opens after its outline is reviewed. Until then it is listed with its state.

Key

labels and checks
  • verifiedA figure or claim read at its primary source by a steward or checkers from at least two communities.
  • secondaryA figure or claim cited through a reviewed work rather than read at its primary source.
  • to verifyA figure or claim whose source has not yet been read; it stays in the verification queue.
  • نامعلومہنوز ہچ ماخذ اف. نن نامعلوم پیش کینہ، اندازہ اف.
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