Bakhtiari dialect is a distinct dialect of
Southern Luri spoken by
Bakhtiari people
The Bakhtiari (also spelled Bakhtiyari; fa, بختیاری) are a Lur tribe from Iran. They speak the Bakhtiari dialect of the Luri language.
Bakhtiaris primarily inhabit Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari and eastern Khuzestan, Lorestan, Bushehr, and ...
in
Chaharmahal-o-Bakhtiari,
Bushehr
Bushehr, Booshehr or Bushire ( fa, بوشهر ; also romanised as ''Būshehr'', ''Bouchehr'', ''Buschir'' and ''Busehr''), also known as Bandar Bushehr ( fa, ; also romanised as ''Bandar Būshehr'' and ''Bandar-e Būshehr''), previously Antio ...
, eastern
Khuzestan and parts of
Isfahan and
Lorestan provinces. It is closely related to the
Boir-Aḥmadī,
Kohgīlūya, and
Mamasanī dialects in northwestern
Fars. These dialects, together with the Lori dialects of Lorestan (e.g.
Khorramabadi dialect
Luri ( lrc, لٛۏری, Łôrī, luz, لُرِی, Lorī) is a Southwestern Iranian language continuum spoken by the Lur people, an Iranian people native to Western Asia. The Luri dialects are descended from Middle Persian and are Central Lu ...
), are referred to as the ''“Perside” southern Zagros group'', or
Lori dialects. Luri and Bakhtiari are much more closely related to
Persian
Persian may refer to:
* People and things from Iran, historically called ''Persia'' in the English language
** Persians, the majority ethnic group in Iran, not to be conflated with the Iranic peoples
** Persian language, an Iranian language of the ...
, than
Kurdish
Kurdish may refer to:
*Kurds or Kurdish people
*Kurdish languages
*Kurdish alphabets
*Kurdistan, the land of the Kurdish people which includes:
**Southern Kurdistan
**Eastern Kurdistan
**Northern Kurdistan
**Western Kurdistan
See also
* Kurd (dis ...
."
Bakhtiari could be seen as a transitional idiom between Kurdish and Persian.
References
;Sources
Bakhtiari dialect Encyclopædia Iranica
* F. Vahman and G. Asatrian, ''Poetry of the Baxtiārīs: Love Poems, Wedding Songs, Lullabies, Laments'', Copenhagen, 199
Further reading
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External links
Bakhtiari Wikipedia Beta*
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