Laki

01The language

Codes

ISO 639-3: lki · Glottocode: laki1244 · page code: lki

Family

Indo-European › Classical Indo-European › Indo-Iranian › Iranian-Nuristani › Iranian › Central Iranian PBS › Central Iranian PB › Northwestern Iranian › Laki-Kurdish

Script

Arab, right to left

Interface

In preparation

Platform phase

By demand

Technology support

Not supported by major engines

Shown with

Estedad

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.

• لەکی lekî

• 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.

  Sources Hammarström, Forkel, Haspelmath and Bank. Glottolog 5.3. Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. (2025) Verified; Fattah. Les dialectes kurdes méridionaux. Acta Iranica 37. Peeters. (2000) To verify

03Where it is spoken, and by how many

Lorestan, Ilam and Kermanshah

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.

05This language’s pages

• Writing

  Scripts, the alphabet chart, romanisation, numerals, keyboards and fonts.

• 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.

06How to help

• Native translators: translate the pages into Laki. This language gets human translation only.
• Teachers and authors: help write the first Laki course.
• Sources: point the research team to openly licensed dictionaries, corpora and recordings. Each enters the sources register for review.
• Fonts and keyboards: report any letter that does not display or type correctly.

07Sources

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. Fattah. Les dialectes kurdes méridionaux. Acta Iranica 37. Peeters. 2000

   To verify

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.

08Research 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. Approaches to Corpus Creation for Low-Resource Language Technology: the Case of Southern Kurdish and Laki

   Sina Ahmadi, Zahra Azin, Sara Belelli et al. · 2023 · Proceedings of the Second Workshop on NLP Applications to Field Linguistics

   ArticleCrossrefDataCitearXivOpenAIREOpen accessCC-BY-4.0

2. Equative Constructions in the Laki Language

   Parisa Najafi, Seyed Najm al-din Shahrokhi, Mohammad Hosseini · 2024 · مطالعات زبان‌‌ها و گویش‌های غرب ایران

   ArticleDOAJOpen access

3. Comparing Agreement System in Kalhori Kurdish with Laki, Surani, and Kormanji

   Mehdi Mehdizadeh, habib gowhari, Gholamhosein Karimi Doostan et al. · 2017 · مطالعات زبان‌‌ها و گویش‌های غرب ایران

   ArticleDOAJOpen access

4. A Morphosyntactic Analysis of Verbal Structure in the Laki Dialect and Its Relation to the Persian Verb System [In Persian]

   Ali Bazvand · 2025 · DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals)

   ArticleOpenAlexOpen accessCC-BY-SA

5. Investigation of Meaning and phonological processes of Arabic words involved in Laki language [In Persian]

   Masoud Bavanpouri, Seyed Mahmoud Mirzaei Al-Husseini, Tayebeh Fathi Iranshahi · 2021 · آموزش زبان، ادبیات و زبانشناسی

   ArticleDOAJOpenAIREOpen access

6. KONSTRUKSI BAHASA GURU PEREMPUAN DAN LAKI-LAKI PADA KEGIATAN AWAL PEMBELAJARAN [Language Construction of Female and Male Teachers in the Beginning of Learning Activities]

   Pipiet Palestin Amurwani · 2021 · TOTOBUANG

   ArticleCrossrefOpenAIREOpen accessCC-BY-NC-SA-4.0

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