| Laki | |
|---|---|
| Kurdish: لەکی, Lekî | |
| Native to | Iran and Turkey |
| Region | Provinces of Hamadan, Ilam, Lorestan and Kermanshah in Iran, and scatteredly elsewhere in Iran and Turkey |
| Ethnicity | Kurds (Lak tribe), Hasanvand |
Native speakers | 680,000 (2021)[1] |
| Perso-Arabic script | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | lki |
| Glottolog | laki1244 |
| Linguasphere | 58-AAC-aac |
Laki (Kurdish: لهکی, romanized: Lekî, Persian: لکی) is a vernacular that consists of two dialects; Pish-e Kuh Laki and Posht-e Kuh Laki.[3] Laki is considered a Kurdish dialect,[4][5][6][7][8] by most linguists[2] and is spoken chiefly in the area between Khorramabad and Kermanshah in Iran by about 680,000 native speakers.[1]
- ^ a b Laki at Ethnologue (27th ed., 2024)
- ^ a b Anonby (2021).
- ^ Anonby (2004), p. 7.
- ^ Anonby (2003), p. 180.
- ^ Windfuhr (2009), p. 587.
- ^ Schmitt (2000), p. 85.
- ^ Hamzeh’ee (2009).
- ^ Dehqan (2008).
