For the town in France, see
Luri, Haute-Corse. Luri or Lori (,
IPA: /loriː/, /luriː/) is a collection of
southwestern Iranian dialects which are mainly spoken by the
Lurs and
Bakhtiari people in the
Iranian provinces of
Lorestan,
Ilam,
Chahar Mahaal and Bakhtiari,
Kohkiluyeh and Buyer Ahmad and parts of
Khuzestan,
Fars,
Markazi,
Kermanshah,
Isfahan, and
Hamadan. Some linguists catgorize the Luri dialects as a sub-group of Persian dialects. Some other sources such as
SIL Ethnologue categorize them as the dialects of a distinct language, close to Persian, and call it Luri language.
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