Editing Luri language (section)

{{short description|Iranian language}}
{{distinguish|Polci language{{!}}Luri language (Nigeria)}}
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{{Infobox language
| name             = Luri
| nativename       = Northern: {{lang|lrc|لری}}<br/>Southern: {{lang|luz|لری}}
| image            = [[File:Luri in Nastaliq.png|200px]]
| pronunciation    = {{IPA|luz|loriː}}
| states           = [[Iran]]; a few villages in eastern [[Iraq]]<ref>{{e18|lrc|Northern Luri}}</ref><ref name="Beth Dougherty; Edmund Ghareeb (2013) p 209">{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZmQYAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA209|title=Historical Dictionary of Iraq|first1=Beth K.|last1=Dougherty|first2=Edmund A.|last2=Ghareeb|date=2013|series=Historical Dictionaries of Asia, Oceania, and the Middle East|edition=2nd|place=Lanham|publisher=Scarecrow Press|page=209|isbn=978-0-8108-6845-8}}</ref>
| region           = Southern [[Zagros Mountains]]
| ethnicity        = [[Lurs]]
| speakers         = 4–5 million
| date             = 2012
| ref              = <ref name="Erik John Anonby 2003 pp 171-197"/><ref>{{Cite encyclopedia |last=Anonby|first=Erik J.|url=http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/lori-language-ii|title=LORI LANGUAGE ii. Sociolinguistic Status|encyclopedia=Encyclopædia Iranica|issn=2330-4804|date=20 December 2012|access-date=2019-04-14|quote=In 2003, the Lori-speaking population in Iran was estimated at 4.2 million speakers, or about 6 percent of the national figure (Anonby, 2003b, p. 173). Given the nationwide growth in population since then, the number of Lori speakers in 2012 is likely closer to 5 million.}}</ref>

1.3 million (2007)<ref>{{Cite web |title=Iran (02/08) |url=https://2009-2017.state.gov/outofdate/bgn/iran/101493.htm |access-date=2024-12-08 |website=U.S. Department of State}}</ref>
| familycolor      = Indo-European
| fam2             = [[Indo-Iranian languages|Indo-Iranian]]
| fam3             = [[Iranian languages|Iranic]]
| fam4             = [[Western Iranian languages|Western Iranic]]
| fam5             = [[Western Iranian languages|Southwestern Iranic]]
| dia1             = Central Luri (Minjai)
| dia2             = Bakhtiari
| dia3             = Southern Luri
| lc1              = lrc
| ld1              = Northern Luri
| lc2              = bqi
| ld2              = [[Bakhtiari dialect|Bakhtiari]]
| lc3              = luz
| ld3              = Southern Luri
| glotto           = luri1252
| glottorefname    = Luric
| map              = 
| mapcaption       = Luri languages.  (Note: Iraqi distribution corresponds to that of Southern Kurdish.)
| imagecaption     = "Luri" written in both Northern Luri and Southern Luri in the [[Persian alphabet|Perso-Arabic script]] with the [[Nastaliq]] font
| fam6             = [[Old Persian]]
| fam7             = [[Middle Persian]]
| fam8             = 
}}

'''Luri'''  ({{langx|lrc|لری}}, {{langx|luz|لری}}) is a Southwestern [[Iranian languages|Iranian]] language continuum spoken by the [[Lurs]], an [[Iranian peoples|Iranian people]] native to [[West Asia]]. The Luri dialects are descended from [[Middle Persian]] and are Central Luri, [[Bakhtiari dialect|Bakhtiari]],<ref name="Erik John Anonby 2003 pp 171-197">{{cite journal|last=Anonby|first=Erik John|date=July 2003|url=http://anonby.balafon.net/wp-content/uploads/2007/06/jra-172-171-197.pdf|title=Update on Luri: How many languages?|journal=Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society|series=Series 3|volume=13|issue=2|pages=171–197|doi=10.1017/S1356186303003067|s2cid=162293895}}</ref><ref name="R. Fazel 1984">G. R. Fazel, 'Lur', in Muslim Peoples: A World Ethnographic Survey, ed. R. V. Weekes (Westport, 1984), pp. 446–447</ref> and Southern Luri.<ref name="Erik John Anonby 2003 pp 171-197"/><ref name="R. Fazel 1984"/> This language is spoken mainly by the [[Bakhtiari people|Bakhtiari]] and the Northern and Southern Lurs ([[Lorestan province|Lorestan]], [[Ilam province|Ilam]], [[Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad province|Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad]], [[Mamasani County|Mamasani]], [[Sepidan County|Sepidan]], [[Bandar Ganaveh]], [[Bandar Deylam]])<ref>{{cite journal|first=John |last=Limbert|date=Spring 1968|title= The Origin and Appearance of the Kurds in Pre-Islamic Iran|journal= Iranian Studies|volume=1|number=2|pages=41–51|jstor=4309997|doi=10.1080/00210866808701350}}</ref> in [[Iran]].