Indo-European · ISO 639-3 bqi
Bakhtiari Language بختیاری
Bakhtiari is an Indo-European language spoken by about 1.2 million people in 1 country. It is written in the Perso-Arabic script.
Where Bakhtiari is spoken
- Official language
- Regional official
- Spoken by 10%+
- 1–10%
- Smaller communities
Countries that speak Bakhtiari
Language family
- Indo-European
- Classical Indo-European
- Indo-Iranian
- Iranian-Nuristani
- Iranian
- Southwestern Iranian
- Middle-Modern Persian
- Modern Southwestern Iranian
- Luric-Dezfulic
- Luric
- Bakhtiari-Southern Lori
- Bakhtiari
Writing system
Perso-Arabic script
Related languages
About the Bakhtiari language
Bakhtiari (بختیاری) is spoken by about 1.2 million people, which makes it the 416th most spoken language in the world — just behind Bhilali (1.2 million) and ahead of Batak Dairi (1.2 million). It belongs to the Indo-European language family and, more precisely, to the Bakhtiari-Southern Lori group within the Indo-Iranian branch.
Where is Bakhtiari spoken?
Bakhtiari is used in 1 country. The largest communities live in Iran (1.2 million).
Bakhtiari is not a national official language anywhere.
Writing system and status
Bakhtiari is written in the Perso-Arabic script. It is a safe, widely transmitted language: children still learn it at home as their first language.
Its closest relatives in the same branch of the family are Southern Luri, Northern Luri, Iranian Persian, Tajik, Dari, Hazaragi and 2 more.
ISO codes: ISO 639-3 bqi.
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Data: Languages of the World dataset (MIT) — ISO 639-3, Glottolog (CC BY 4.0), Unicode CLDR, Google LinguaMeta (CC BY 4.0) and Wikidata; country lists: samayo/country-json (MIT). Speaker numbers include first- and second-language speakers where sources report them.