Laki language
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This article is about the laki language. For the Northeast Caucasian language, see Lak language.
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 in Iran by about 680,000 native speakers.[1]
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Laki | |
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Kurdish: لەکی, Lekî | |
Native to | Iran and Turkey |
Region | Provinces of Hamadan, Ilam, Lorestan and Kermanshah in Iran, and scatteredly elsewhere in Iran and Turkey |
Ethnicity | Kurds (Lak tribe), Hasanvand |
Native speakers | 680,000 (2021)[1] |
Perso-Arabic script | |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | lki |
Glottolog | laki1244 |
Linguasphere | 58-AAC-aac |
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