Editing Luri language (section)

==History==
The ''[[Encyclopedia of Islam]]'' calls Luri “an aberrant form of archaic Persian.”<ref>C.S. Coon, 1997, "Iran: Demography and Ethnography" in ''Encyclopaedia of Islam: New Edition'', Volume IV, Leiden, E. J. Brill, page 9. “In the mountains south of the Kurds live the Lurs,
who speak an aberrant form of archaic Persian.”</ref> The language descends from either [[Middle Persian]] or [[Old Persian]].<ref name="Erik John Anonby 2003 pp 171-197"/><ref>{{cite encyclopedia|last=Stilo|first=Donald|date=15 December 2007|url=http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/isfahan-xxi-provincial-dialects|title=Isfahan xxi. PROVINCIAL DIALECTS|encyclopedia=Encyclopædia Iranica|volume=XIV, fasc. 1|pages=93–112|issn=2330-4804|quote=While the modern SWI languages, for instance, Persian, Lori-Baḵtiāri and others, are derived directly from Old Persian through Middle Persian/Pahlavi|access-date=2019-04-14}}</ref> It belongs to the “''Perside'' southern Zagros group” (as opposed to Kurdish dialects of northern Zagros),<ref name="iranica1">{{cite encyclopedia|last1=Digard|first1=J.-P.|last2=Windfuhr|first2=G. L.|last3=Ittig|first3=A.|url=http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/baktiari-tribe#pt2|title=BAḴTĪĀRĪ TRIBE ii. The Baḵtīārī Dialect |encyclopedia= Encyclopædia Iranica|date=15 December 1988|volume=III, fasc. 5|pages=553–560|issn=2330-4804|access-date=2019-04-14}}</ref> and is lexically similar to modern Persian, differing mainly in phonology.

According to the ''[[Encyclopædia Iranica]]'', "All Lori dialects closely resemble standard Persian and probably developed from a stage of Persian similar to that represented in Early New Persian texts written in Perso-Arabic script. The sole typical Lori feature not known in early New Persian or derivable from it is the inchoative marker (see below), though even this is found in Judeo-Persian texts".<ref name="iranica dialects">{{cite encyclopedia|last=MacKinnon|first=Colin|url=http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/lori-dialects|title=LORI LANGUAGE i. LORI DIALECTS|encyclopedia=Encyclopædia Iranica|date=7 January 2011|issn=2330-4804|access-date=2019-04-14}}</ref> The [[Bakhtiāri dialect]] may be closer to Persian.<ref>{{cite encyclopedia|last=Paul|first=Ludwig|url=http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/kurdish-language-i |title=KURDISH LANGUAGE i. HISTORY OF THE KURDISH LANGUAGE|encyclopedia=Encyclopædia Iranica|issn=2330-4804|date=15 December 2008|access-date=2019-04-14}}</ref> There are two distinct languages, Greater Luri (''Lor-e bozorg''), {{aka}} Southern Luri (including Bakhtiari dialect), and Lesser Luri (''Lor-e kuček''), {{aka}} Northern Luri.<ref name="iranica dialects"/>