Editing Laki language (section)

{{Short description|Dialect of the Kurdish language}}
{{about|the laki language|the Northeast Caucasian language|Lak language}}
{{Infobox language
| name             = Laki
| nativename       = {{langx|ku|لەکی, Lekî}}
| altname          = 
| states           = [[Iran]]
| region           = Provinces of [[Hamadan Province|Hamadan]], [[Ilam Province|Ilam]], [[Lorestan Province|Lorestan]] and [[Kermanshah Province|Kermanshah]] in Iran, and scatteredly elsewhere in Iran<ref>{{e28|lki}}</ref>
| ethnicity        = [[Kurds]] ([[Lak (tribe)|Lak tribe]]), [[Hasanvand]]
| speakers         = {{sigfig|680,000|2}} 
| date             = 2021
| ref              = <ref>{{e28|lki}}</ref>
| speakers2        = 
| script          = [[Persian alphabet|Perso-Arabic script]]
| familycolor      = Indo-European
| fam2             = [[Indo-Iranian languages|Indo-Iranian]]
| fam3             = [[Iranian languages|Iranian]]
| fam4             = [[Western Iranian languages|Western Iranian]]
| fam5             = [[Western Iranian languages#Northwestern Iranian|Northwestern Iranian]]
| fam6             = [[Kurdish languages|Kurdish]]
| fam7             = [[Southern Kurdish]]{{sfnp|Anonby|2021}}
| iso3             = lki
| glotto           = laki1244
| glottorefname    = Laki
| lingua           = 58-AAC-aac
}}

'''Laki''' ({{langx|ku|له‌کی|translit=Lekî}}, {{langx|fa|لکی}}) is a [[vernacular]] that consists of two dialects; Pish-e Kuh Laki and Posht-e Kuh Laki.{{Sfnp|Anonby|2004|p=7}} Laki is considered a [[Kurdish languages|Kurdish dialect]],{{Sfnp|Anonby|2003|p=180}}{{Sfnp|Windfuhr|2009|p=587}}{{Sfnp|Schmitt|2000|p=85}}{{Sfnp|Hamzeh’ee|2009}}{{Sfnp|Dehqan|2008}} by most linguists{{sfnp|Anonby|2021}} and is spoken chiefly in the area between [[Khorramabad]] and [[Kermanshah]] in Iran by about 680,000 native speakers.<ref>{{e28|lki}}</ref>