Bakhtiari dialect

Bakhtiari
Bakhtiari
Bakhtiâri
بختیاری
Native to	Iran
Ethnicity	Lur, Bakhtiari
Native speakers	1.27 million (2021); 350,000 monolinguals
Language family	Indo-European Indo-Iranian Iranian Western Iranian Southwestern Iranian Luri Southern Luri Bakhtiari; ; ; ; ; ; ;
Dialects	Izeh; Shahr e Kord; Chaharlang; Haftgel; Aligurdaz; Chelgerd; Kuhrang; Haftlang; Masjed e Soleiman;
Writing system	Persian alphabet
Language codes
ISO 639-3	bqi
Glottolog	bakh1245

Bakhtiari dialect is a distinct dialect of Southern Luri spoken by Bakhtiari people in Chaharmahal-o-Bakhtiari, Bushehr, eastern Khuzestan and parts of Isfahan and Lorestan provinces.^[3] It is closely related to the Boir-Ahamadi, Kohgiluyeh, and Mamasani dialects in northwestern Fars. These dialects, together with the Lori dialects of Lorestan (e.g. Khorramabadi dialect), are referred to as the “Perside” southern Zagros group, or Lori dialects. Luri and Bakhtiari are much more closely related to Persian than Luri."^[4] Dialects of Persian spoken in Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari Province are mutually intelligible with Bakhtiari.^[1]

Bakhtiari could be seen as a transitional idiom between Kurdish and Persian.^[5]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c Bakhtiari at Ethnologue (26th ed., 2023)
^ "Bakhtiâri".
^ Erik Anonby; Mortaza Taheri-Ardali (2016). "Bakhtiari". In Geoffrey Haig; Geoffrey Khan (eds.). The Languages and Linguistics of Western Asia. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter Mouton. ISBN 978-3-11-042608-3.
^ Limbert, John: Journal of Iranian Studies Vol. 1, No. 2 at p. 47 (1968) "The Origin and Appearance of Kurds in Pre-Islamic Iran."
^ Paul, Ludwig (2008). "Kurdish language i. History of the Kurdish language". Encyclopedia Iranica.