Shushtari dialect

Shushtari (Persian: شوشتری [ʃuːʃtæˈɾiː]) is a language variety spoken in and around the city of Shushtar in Khuzestan Province in southwestern Iran. It constitutes a Southwestern Iranian dialect group with the Dezfuli dialect, which is spoken in Dezful, the adjacent city. The main difference between Dezfuli and Shushtari is in vowel pronunciation. Linguist List has classified Shushtri and Dezfuli as a language independent from Persian. Glottolog places the Dezfuli and Shoshtri dialects with the Luri language in a group called Luric–Dezfulic. In the article on the dialects of Khuzestan, Iranica considers the Dezfuli, Shoshtri, and Bakhtiari dialects to belong to the southern group of the Luri language.