Indo-European · ISO 639-3 lki
Laki Language لەکی
Laki is an Indo-European language spoken by about 1.5 million people in 1 country. It is written in the Perso-Arabic script.
Where Laki is spoken
- Official language
- Regional official
- Spoken by 10%+
- 1–10%
- Smaller communities
Countries that speak Laki
Language family
- Indo-European
- Classical Indo-European
- Indo-Iranian
- Iranian-Nuristani
- Iranian
- Central Iranian PBS
- Central Iranian PB
- Northwestern Iranian
- Laki-Kurdish
- Laki
Writing system
Perso-Arabic script
Related languages
About the Laki language
Laki (لەکی) is spoken by about 1.5 million people, which makes it the 372nd most spoken language in the world — just behind Liberian English (1.5 million) and ahead of Thur (1.5 million). It belongs to the Indo-European language family and, more precisely, to the Laki-Kurdish group within the Indo-Iranian branch.
Where is Laki spoken?
Laki is used in 1 country. The largest communities live in Iran (671,740).
Laki is not a national official language anywhere.
Writing system and status
Laki 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 Northern Kurdish, Central Kurdish, Southern Kurdish, Mazanderani, Gilaki, Southern Balochi and 2 more.
ISO codes: ISO 639-3 lki.
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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.