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Luri and Bakhtiari

Lorestan, Khuzestan, Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari, and Kohgiluyeh

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لۊری

01The language

Codes
ISO 639-3: lrc, bqi, luz · Glottocode: nort2645, bakh1245, sout2647 · page code: lrc
Family
Indo-European › Classical Indo-European › Indo-Iranian › Iranian-Nuristani › Iranian › Southwestern Iranian › Middle-Modern Persian › Modern Southwestern Iranian › Luric-Dezfulic › Luric
Script
Arab, right to left
Interface
In preparation
Platform phase
By demand
Technology support
Low resource
Shown with
Vazirmatn

Sources Hammarström, Forkel, Haspelmath and Bank. Glottolog 5.3. Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. (2025) Verified; ISO 639-3 code tables. SIL International, registration authority. (2025) To verify

02Names and perspectives

Where names, classification or identity are debated, each view is shown with its sources. The platform takes no side.

  • لۊری lori

03Where it is spoken, and by how many

Lorestan, Khuzestan, Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari, and Kohgiluyeh

Unknown

Speakers: 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.

04Status

The UNESCO World Atlas of Languages is the United Nations source; its status is shown first and stays to verify until the Atlas can be read. Beside it, the Agglomerated Endangerment Status in Glottolog brings together the Catalogue of Endangered Languages, the UNESCO Atlas and Ethnologue. Ethnologue appears only as a secondary source.

EntryStatusBasisSource
UNESCO World Atlas of LanguagesTo verifyUNESCO. World Atlas of Languages. (2025) To verify
Northern LuriNot endangered6a (Vigorous)Eberhard, Simons and Fennig (eds.). Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 28th edition. SIL International. (2025) Secondary source via Glottolog
BakhtiariNot endangered6a (Vigorous)Eberhard, Simons and Fennig (eds.). Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 28th edition. SIL International. (2025) Secondary source via Glottolog
Southern LuriNot endangered6a (Vigorous)Eberhard, Simons and Fennig (eds.). Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 28th edition. SIL International. (2025) Secondary source via Glottolog

05Varieties and dialects

Dialect groups as Glottolog records them. Names stay as published.

Northern Luri

7 dialects recorded

  • Andimeshki
  • Bala-Gariva’i
  • Borujerdi
  • Cagani
  • Khorramabadi
  • Mahali {Iran}
  • Nahavandi

Bakhtiari

4 dialects recorded

  • Charlang
  • Chelgerd
  • Haft-Lang
  • Kuhrang

Southern Luri

5 dialects recorded

  • Boyerahmadi
  • Kohgiluyeh
  • Mamasani
  • Shuli
  • Yasuji

Sources Hammarström, Forkel, Haspelmath and Bank. Glottolog 5.3. Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. (2025) Verified

06This language’s pages

  • Writing

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  • Linguistics

    Sounds in IPA, pronunciation, grammar and core words compared with neighbouring languages.

  • Learn

    A pathway from first steps to fluency, courses, exams and heritage-language programmes.

  • Resources and preservation

    Dictionaries, corpora, libraries and media; endangerment and documentation; how to contribute.

07Courses

08How to help

  • Native translators: translate the pages into Luri and Bakhtiari. This language gets human translation only.
  • Teachers: teach or help write Luri and Bakhtiari.
  • Sources: point the research team to openly licensed dictionaries, corpora and recordings. Each enters the sources register for review.
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09Sources

  1. Hammarström, Forkel, Haspelmath and Bank. Glottolog 5.3. Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. 2025

    Verified CC BY 4.0 Classification, dialect groups and the Agglomerated Endangerment Status (AES), read 2026-10-23.

  2. ISO 639-3 code tables. SIL International, registration authority. 2025

    To verify Codes cross-checked through Glottolog records; the code tables themselves were not read.

  3. UNESCO. World Atlas of Languages. 2025

    To verify Not reachable when checked on 2026-10-23. Its status for each language is to verify.

  4. Eberhard, Simons and Fennig (eds.). Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 28th edition. SIL International. 2025

    Secondary source Cited only as Glottolog reports it (its AES source). Ethnologue itself was not read.

Cite this page
APA

Iranian Diaspora Cooperation & Development Council. (2026). Luri and Bakhtiari. iranians.global. https://iranians.global/language/languages/lrc/

Chicago

Iranian Diaspora Cooperation & Development Council. 2026. “Luri and Bakhtiari.” iranians.global. https://iranians.global/language/languages/lrc/.

BibTeX
@misc{idcdc2026_language_languages_lrc,
	author = {{Iranian Diaspora Cooperation \& Development Council}},
	year = {2026},
	note = {Licence: CC BY 4.0},
	title = {Luri and {Bakhtiari}},
	url = {https://iranians.global/language/languages/lrc/},
	howpublished = {https://iranians.global/language/languages/lrc/},
}

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10Research and sources

Recent and relevant work on this page’s subject, from approved open scholarly sources. Metadata and links only. Titles stay as published. Not yet reviewed.

  1. The origins of the term “luri languageˮ: a historical investigation

    S. M. Dadras, O. Izadi, S. Rezaei · 2021 · Journal of Oriental Studies

    ArticleOpenAIREOpen access

  2. Urophora bakhtiari Mohamadzade 2015

    Nazila Saghaei · 2016 · Zenodo

    ArticleDataCiteZenodoOpen accessCC0-1.0

  3. Growth and Feedlot Performance of Lori-Bakhtiari, Romanov × Lori-Bakhtiari and Pakistani × Lori-Bakhtiari Crossbred Lambs

    Mohammad Ali Talebi, Korush Gholamhosani · 2018 · Research on Animal Production

    ArticleCrossref

  4. Urophora bakhtiari Mohamadzade, sp. nov.

    Saeed Mohamadzade Namin, Jamasb Nozari · 2015 · Zenodo

    ArticleDataCiteZenodoOpen accessCC0-1.0

  5. Bakhtiari, Leskinen, and Törmä Reply:

    M. Reza Bakhtiari, M. J. Leskinen, P. Törmä · 2009 · Physical Review Letters

    ArticleCrossrefarXivOpen access

  6. The Effects of Aggregate Size on Soil Phosphorus Availability and its Fractionation in some Calcareous Soils of Chahar Mahal _Va_ Bakhtiari Province

    M. Shirmohammadi, A. R. Hossein Pour, SH. Kiani · 2018 · علوم آب و خاک

    ArticleDOAJOpen access

  7. The Analysis of Resistance Patterns in the Bakhtiari and Boyer Ahmadi Epic Poetry

    Mahmood Aghakhani Bizhani, Eshagh Toghiani · 2023 · ادبیات پایداری

    ArticleDOAJOpen access

  8. Urophora bakhtiari Mohamadzade Namin 2015

    Saeed Mohamadzade Namin, Valery A. Korneyev · 2018 · Zenodo

    ArticleDataCiteZenodoOpen accessCC0-1.0

  9. luri rug

    2021 · The Fairchild Books Dictionary of Textiles

    ChapterCrossref

  10. A phonology of Southern Luri. By Erik John Anonby. (LINCOM studies in Indo-European linguistics 25.) Munich: LINCOM Europa, 2003. Pp. 127. ISBN 3895867233. $68.40.

    Carolina González · 2007 · Language

    ArticleCrossref

  11. Video Dokumenter "Sesanti Titi Luri Tengger" Sebagai Media informasi

    Yogi Widya Saka Warsaa · 2022 · Jurnal Desain Komunikasi Visual Asia

    ArticleCrossrefCC-BY-NC-SA-4.0

  12. Recensión: Gregorio Luri, La escuela no es un parque de atracciones, una defensa del conocimiento poderoso

    Marcela Vergara · 2024 · Colloquia, Academic Journal of Culture and Thought

    ArticleCrossrefCC-BY-4.0

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