Bakhtiari dialect
Bakhtiari dialect is a dialect of the Luri language spoken by Bakhtiari people in Chaharmahal-o-Bakhtiari, Bushehr, eastern Khuzestan and parts of Isfahan and Lorestan provinces. It is closely related to the Boir-Ahamadi, Kohgiluyeh, and Mamasani dialects in northwestern Fars. These dialects, together with the Luri dialects of Lorestan (e.g. Khorramabadi dialect), are referred to as the "Perside" southern Zagros group, or Lori dialects. Luri and Bakhtiari are much more closely related to Persian than Kurdish. Dialects of Persian spoken in Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari province are mutually intelligible with Bakhtiari.
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| Bakhtiâri | |
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| Native to | Iran |
| Ethnicity | Bakhtiari Lurs |
Native speakers | 1.27 million (2021)[1] |
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| ISO 639-3 | bqi |
| Glottolog | bakh1245 |
Bakhtiari dialect is a dialect of the Luri language spoken by Bakhtiari people in Chaharmahal-o-Bakhtiari, Bushehr, eastern Khuzestan and parts of Isfahan and Lorestan provinces.[3] It is closely related to the Boir-Ahamadi, Kohgiluyeh, and Mamasani dialects in northwestern Fars. These dialects, together with the Luri dialects of Lorestan (e.g. Khorramabadi dialect), are referred to as the "Perside" southern Zagros group, or Lori dialects. Luri and Bakhtiari are much more closely related to Persian than Kurdish.[4] Dialects of Persian spoken in Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari province are mutually intelligible with Bakhtiari.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ a b Bakhtiari at Ethnologue (26th ed., 2023)
- ^ "Bakhtiâri".
- ^ Erik Anonby; Mortaza Taheri-Ardali (2016). "Bakhtiari". In Geoffrey Haig; Geoffrey Khan (eds.). The Languages and Linguistics of Western Asia. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter Mouton. doi:10.1515/9783110421682-014. ISBN 978-3-11-042608-3.
- ^ Limbert, John: Journal of Iranian Studies Vol. 1, No. 2 at p. 47 (1968) "The Origin and Appearance of Kurds in Pre-Islamic Iran."
Sources
[edit]- F. Vahman and G. Asatrian. (1995). Poetry of the Baxtiārīs: Love Poems, Wedding Songs, Lullabies, Laments. Copenhagen: Kongelige Danske videnskabernes selskab. ISBN 978-87-7304-263-2
Further reading
[edit]- "Spoken Bakhtiari". Gholam Hossein Rahmanian School for International Training. SIT Graduate Institute.
External links
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- Bakhtiari Wikipedia Beta Archived 2015-09-22 at the Wayback Machine
- "Salient Linguistic Features and Isoglosses in Chahar Mahal va Bakhtiari Province, Iran". Mortaza Taheri-Ardali, Shahrekord University, Iran.
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