Indo-European · ISO 639-3 lrc
Northern Luri Language لری
Northern Luri is an Indo-European language spoken by about 1.8 million people in 2 countries. It is written in the Perso-Arabic script.
Where Northern Luri is spoken
- Official language
- Regional official
- Spoken by 10%+
- 1–10%
- Smaller communities
Language family
- Indo-European
- Classical Indo-European
- Indo-Iranian
- Iranian-Nuristani
- Iranian
- Southwestern Iranian
- Middle-Modern Persian
- Modern Southwestern Iranian
- Luric-Dezfulic
- Luric
- Northern Luri
Writing system
Perso-Arabic script
Related languages
About the Northern Luri language
Northern Luri (لری) is spoken by about 1.8 million people, which makes it the 335th most spoken language in the world — just behind Lampung Api (1.8 million) and ahead of Mende (Sierra Leone) (1.8 million). It belongs to the Indo-European language family and, more precisely, to the Luric group within the Indo-Iranian branch.
Where is Northern Luri spoken?
Northern Luri is used in 2 countries. The largest communities live in Iran (1.9 million) and Iraq (256,708).
Share of the population that speaks Northern Luri: Iran 2.1% (1.9 million) and Iraq 0.6% (256,708).
Northern Luri is not a national official language anywhere.
Writing system and status
Northern Luri 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 Bakhtiari, Southern Luri, Iranian Persian, Tajik, Dari, Hazaragi and 2 more.
ISO codes: ISO 639-3 lrc.
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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.