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לכי

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

לכי

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

See the courses

On the mapWhere spokenrecordedCourses1
אדיו
אקדמיה126 קורסים, הלא היצ' חד קא הרשמה לא פתיחאאזרחי3 קמפיינים, 5 תכניותירותא116 יומי קא דוכראנא, 40 רישומי דכרונולוגיהכברי88 מקורות מאושרים, הלא אירועים מאושרים לֵתסניפיםגו בנאיא. הלא היצ' חד מוכר לֵוֵה
ScriptArabright to lefton request

Record

lki
لکیLaki · Arab
Code
lki
Family
Iranian, Northwestern
Where
Lorestan, Ilam and Kermanshah
Phase
on request
כיסוי
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
פתח
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

כתבים

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
מאומת
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)) משני
Laki-Kurdish
מאומת
בדיקה עוד, מקורא זיד עוד יאן דווח עוד
קא בדיקה דאאיא ערך עוד יארמתי

בתרה מא הויא. נטורא הערה דידוך קרי ומקורא בדק. דפא בס בתר אאיא משתניא. שמוך לא מתאמר.

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

לא ידיעא
מידה
speakers
שאתא
לא רשימא
מקור
הלא מקורא לֵת. לא ידיעא מחזך, ניחוש לֵוֵה.
מצב
לא ידיעא
בדיקה עוד, מקורא זיד עוד יאן דווח עוד
קא בדיקה דאאיא ערך עוד יארמתי

בתרה מא הויא. נטורא הערה דידוך קרי ומקורא בדק. דפא בס בתר אאיא משתניא. שמוך לא מתאמר.

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.

ילף

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

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  • 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.
  • לא ידיעאהלא מקורא לֵת. לא ידיעא מחזך, ניחוש לֵוֵה.
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