Borujerdi dialect

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Borujerdi dialect
Native toIran
RegionCentral Zagros
Native speakers
(undated figure of ca. 0.8 million)[citation needed]
Language codes
ISO 639-3
Glottologboru1243

The Borujerdi dialect (Persian: گویش بروجردی)‌ is a dialect of Luri language spoken in Borujerd city and its surrounding areas in the province of Lorestan in Iran. Borujerdi is more similar to Northern Luri than the Persian language,[1][2] spoken in other parts of Lorestan, being in some aspects completely different.

Linguistic dependency[edit]

Ethnologue and Linguist List introduce Borujerdi as a Northern Luri Kurdish dialect.[3][4] Encyclopædia Iranica mentions Borujerd as one of the as one of the important centers of North Luri dialects.[5] Dehkhoda Dictionary considers the language of Borujerd County's inhabitants as Persian Luri.[6]

Notes[edit]

  1. ^ "LORI LANGUAGE ii. Sociolinguistic Status of Lori". iranica. Retrieved 8 February 2013.
  2. ^ "Luri, Northern". Ethnologue, Languages Of the World. Retrieved 8 February 2013.
  3. ^ "Language by Country". Linguist List. 10 September 2014. Archived from the original on 10 September 2014. Retrieved 10 September 2014.
  4. ^ "Luri, Northern". Ethnologue. Archived from the original on 9 February 2014. Retrieved 21 September 2014.
  5. ^ "LORI LANGUAGE ii. Sociolinguistic Status of Lori". iranica. Retrieved 8 February 2013.
  6. ^ "بروجرد" (in Persian). لغتنامه دهخدا. 18 November 2012. Archived from the original on 18 May 2013. Retrieved 1 February 2013.