Borujerdi dialect

The Borujerdi dialect (Persian: گویش بروجردی)‌ is a dialect of Luri language spoken in Borujerd city and its surrounding areas in the province of Lorestan in Iran. Borujerdi is more similar to Northern Luri than the Persian language,[2][3] spoken in other parts of Lorestan, being in some aspects is completely different.

Borujerdi dialect
Native toIran
RegionCentral Zagros
Native speakers
ca. 0.8 million
Indo-European
Language codes
ISO 639-3–
Glottologboru1243[1]

Borujerdi dialect is spoken in Borujerd City and more than 200 villages around it. People of Malayer, Doorod, Arak, Toyserkan and Kangavar have a very similar accent to Borujerdi and their language can be considered same as Borujerdi dialect of Luri.[4] It is estimated that between 0.8 and 1 million people in provinces of Loristan, Markazi, Hamadan and Kermanshah speak in Borujerdi dialect with minor differences in their accents.

Notes
  1. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Borujerdi". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  2. "LORI LANGUAGE ii. Sociolinguistic Status of Lori". iranica. Retrieved 8 February 2013.
  3. "Luri, Northern". Ethnologue, Languages Of the World. Retrieved 8 February 2013.
  4. "LORI DIALECTS". iranica. Retrieved 8 February 2013.


gollark: Well, a little-known of the OpenWeatherMap API is that it actually lets you control the weather.
gollark: I can use it for my evil weather-related projects now and they'll blame you.
gollark: It is NOT secure for it to be on the client.
gollark: Yes, move it to backend code.
gollark: I could still quite easily get it.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.