Laki language

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Laki
Spoken in Iran, Iraq
Region Central Zagros
Total speakers ca. 1,500,000.
Language family Indo-European
Language codes
ISO 639-1 None
ISO 639-2
ISO 639-3 lkiLaki

Laki (له‌کی) is a Northwestern Iranian language. Although usually it is grouped along with Southern Kurdish dialects, Ethnologue classifies it as a fourth subgroup of Kurdish. Ethnologue has cited its lexical similarity with the Lurish language as 78% and Persian Language as 70%.[1][2] It is spoken in the central Zagros region of Iran (provinces of Lorestan, Ilam, Kermanshah, Hamedan, Qazvin, Khuzestan) and small parts of Iraq by the [[Lak people (Iran)|Lak people . the most lak pepole life in Alashtar, Koohdasht, Nourabad, Harsin, Sahneh, And .......


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  1. ^ Kurdish language - Britannica Online Encyclopedia
  2. ^ Ethnologue report for language code:lki

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