Laki dialect

Laki^[3](لەکی; Lekî) is considered an independent Iranian language^[4][5][6] and sometimes as a dialect of Lurish language^[7][8][9] or Southern Kurdish.^{[10][11][12][13]} Lexical similarity with Khorramabadi Luristani is 78%, with Persian is 70%, and with Northern Luri is 69%.^[1]

Laki is presently spoken in the areas south of Hamadan and including the towns of Nahavand, Tuyserkan, Nursbad, Ilam, Gilan, and Pahla (Pehle), as well as the countryside in the districts of Horru, Selasele, Silakhur, and the northern Aleshtar in western Iran. There are also major Laki colonies spread from Khorasan to the Mediterranean Sea. Pockets of Laki speakers are found in Azerbaijan, the Alburz mountains, the Caspian coastal region, the Khurasani enclave (as far south as Birjand), the mountainous land between Qum and Kashan, and the region between Adiyaman and the Ceyhan river in far western Kurdistan in Anatolia. There are also many Iranian tribes named Lak who now speak other Iranian dialects (or other languages altogether) and are found from Adana to central Anatolia in Turkey, in Daghistan in the Russian Caucasus, and from Ahar to the suburbs of Teheran in Iran.

The syntax and vocabulary of Laki have been profoundly altered by Lurish language, a Southwest Iranic language. The basic grammar and verb systems of Laki are, like other Northwestern Iranian languages especially Kurdish dialects and Zaza-Gorani languages, clearly Northwest Iranic. This relationship is further affirmed by remnants in Laki of the Kurdish grammatical hallmark, the ergative construction. Despite this, Shahsavari based on his linguistics and semantics characteristics concluded that Laki is obviously different from Kurdish.^[14]

laki and Ancient Persian

Comparison between Laki and some other Kurdish varieties

Comparison between Laki and some other Lurish varieties

Laki colors

Laki calendar

See also

• Jalilavand

References

External links

Laki test of Wikipedia at Wikimedia Incubator