Indo-European · ISO 639-3 luz
Southern Luri Language لُرِی
Southern Luri is an Indo-European language spoken by about 1.0 million people in 1 country. It is written in the Perso-Arabic script.
Where Southern Luri is spoken
- Official language
- Regional official
- Spoken by 10%+
- 1–10%
- Smaller communities
Countries that speak Southern Luri
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
- Southern Luri
Writing system
Perso-Arabic script
Related languages
About the Southern Luri language
Southern Luri (لُرِی) is spoken by about 1.0 million people, which makes it the 474th most spoken language in the world — just behind Lozi (1.0 million) and ahead of Nepal Bhasa (1.0 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 Southern Luri spoken?
Southern Luri is used in 1 country. The largest communities live in Iran (1.1 million).
Southern Luri is not a national official language anywhere.
Writing system and status
Southern 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, Northern Luri, Iranian Persian, Tajik, Dari, Hazaragi and 2 more.
ISO codes: ISO 639-3 luz.
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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.