Laki language

Laki
Kurdish: لەکی, Lekî
Native toIran and Turkey
RegionProvinces of Hamadan, Ilam, Lorestan and Kermanshah in Iran, and scatteredly elsewhere in Iran and Turkey
EthnicityLaks, Hasanvand
Native speakers
680,000 (2021)[1]
Perso-Arabic script
Language codes
ISO 639-3lki
Glottologlaki1244
Linguasphere58-AAC-aac

Laki (Kurdish: له‌کی, romanized: Lekî, Persian: لکی) is a vernacular that consists of two dialects; Pish-e Kuh Laki and Posht-e Kuh Laki.[3] Laki is considered a Kurdish dialect,[4][5][6][7][8] by most linguists[2] and is spoken chiefly in the area between Khorramabad and Kermanshah by about 680,000 native speakers.[1]

  1. ^ a b Laki at Ethnologue (27th ed., 2024) Closed access icon
  2. ^ a b Anonby (2021).
  3. ^ Anonby (2004), p. 7.
  4. ^ Anonby (2003), p. 180.
  5. ^ Windfuhr (2009), p. 587.
  6. ^ Schmitt (2000), p. 85.
  7. ^ Hamzeh’ee (2009).
  8. ^ Dehqan (2008).

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