Bakhtiari dialect

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Bakhtiari
Bakhtiâri
بختیاری
Native speakers
1.27 million (2021)[1]
350,000 monolinguals[1]
  • Southern Luri
    • Bakhtiari
Dialects
  • Izeh
  • Shahr e Kord
  • Chaharlang
  • Haftgel
  • Aligurdaz
  • Chelgerd
  • Kuhrang
  • Haftlang
  • Masjed e Soleiman
Persian alphabet
Language codes
ISO 639-3bqi
Glottologbakh1245

Bakhtiari dialect is a distinct dialect of

Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari Province are mutually intelligible with Bakhtiari.[1]

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

References

  1. ^ a b c Bakhtiari at Ethnologue (26th ed., 2023) Closed access icon
  2. ^ "Bakhtiâri".
  3. .
  4. ^ Limbert, John: Journal of Iranian Studies Vol. 1, No. 2 at p. 47 (1968) "The Origin and Appearance of Kurds in Pre-Islamic Iran."
  5. Encyclopedia Iranica
    .

Sources

Further reading

  • "Spoken Bakhtiari". Gholam Hossein Rahmanian School for International Training. SIT Graduate Institute.

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