Borujerdi dialect

Borujerdi dialect
Borujerdi dialect
Native to	Iran
Region	Central Zagros
Native speakers	(undated figure of ca. 0.8 million)[citation needed]
Language family	Indo-European Indo-Iranian Iranian Western Iranian Southwestern Iranian Luri Northern Luri Borujerdi dialect; ; ; ; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	–
Glottolog	boru1243

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

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

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

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[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.

[linguistlist-3] "Language by Country". Linguist List. 10 September 2014. Archived from the original on 10 September 2014. Retrieved 10 September 2014.

[ethnologue-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.

[loghatnaameh-6] "بروجرد" (in Persian). لغتنامه دهخدا. 18 November 2012. Archived from the original on 18 May 2013. Retrieved 1 February 2013.

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