Bakhtiari dialect

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Bakhtiari
بختیاری
Native toIran
EthnicityLur people, Bakhtiari people
Native speakers
1 million (2001)[1]
350,000 monolinguals
Indo-European
Persian alphabet
Language codes
ISO 639-3bqi
Glottologbakh1245

Bakhtiari dialect is a dialect of Southern Luri spoken by Bakhtiari people in Chaharmahal-o-Bakhtiari, Bushehr, eastern Khuzestan and parts of Isfahan and Lorestan provinces. It is closely related to the , , and dialects in northwestern Fars. These dialects, together with the Lori 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."[3]

Bakhtiari could be seen as a transitional idiom between Kurdish and Persian.[4]

References[]

  1. ^ Bakhtiari at Ethnologue (19th ed., 2016)
  2. ^ "Bakhtiâri".
  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".
  4. ^ Paul, Ludwig (2008). "KURDISH LANGUAGE i. HISTORY OF THE KURDISH LANGUAGE". Encyclopedia Iranica.
Sources
  • Bakhtiari dialect, Encyclopædia Iranica
  • F. Vahman and G. Asatrian, Poetry of the Baxtiārīs: Love Poems, Wedding Songs, Lullabies, Laments, Copenhagen, 1995.[1]

Further reading[]

  • "Spoken Bakhtiari". Gholam Hossein Rahmanian School for International Training. SIT Graduate Institute.

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