Laki

Also known as Laki language, Lekî

Iranian language

Key facts

Native to: Iran
Region: Provinces of Hamadan , Ilam , Lorestan and Kermanshah in Iran, and scatteredly elsewhere in Iran
Ethnicity: Kurds ( Lak tribe )
Native speakers: 680,000 (2021)
Language family: Indo-European Indo-Iranian Iranian Western Iranian Northwestern Iranian Kurdish Laki
Writing system: Perso-Arabic script
Iso 639 3: lki
Glottolog: laki1244
Linguasphere: 58-AAC-aac

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number of speakers, writers, or signers: 1500000
Wikimedia language code: lki
exact match: publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/language/LKI
Wikimedia Incubator URL: incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/lki

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Laki (Kurdish: له‌کی, romanized: Lekî, Persian: لکی) is a language variety that consists of two major sub-varieties: Pish-e Kuh Laki and Posht-e Kuh Laki. Laki is considered a Kurdish dialect by many linguists and is spoken chiefly in the area between Khorramabad and Kermanshah in Iran by about 680,000 native speakers.

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