Lari language

Lari
Larestani
Native to Iran
Region Fars Province, Bastak County
Native speakers
unknown (undated figure of 80,000)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 lrl
Glottolog lari1253[2]

Lari, also known as Larestani (Persian: لارستانی), is a southwestern Iranian language related to Luri and Persian. The Lari language has kept strong ties with Old Persian.[3][4] The Lari language is derived from Middle Persian.[4] The Lari language has lots of words from Middle Persian that distinguishes it from modern Persian.[4] The Lari language has less Arabic influence than Modern Persian, which suggests that Lari descends from a purer Iranian tongue.[4][5] There are ergative structure in Lari verbal morphology, which is distinct from Persian.

Lari is spoken in different counties of the Fars province (Larestan, Khonj, Gerash, Lamerd) and in the mountainous Bastak County in Hormozgan. The language is spoken by Larestani people, the majority of Larestani people are Sunni Muslims.[6][7][8][9]

Lari has several dialects: Khonji, Lari, Gerashi, Evazi (Awadhi), Fedaghi, Aradi, Bastaki, Fishvari, Khookherdi and Kandari.

Bibliography

References

  1. Lari at Ethnologue (15th ed., 2005)
  2. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Lari". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
  3. "Lar, An Ancient City" (PDF).
  4. 1 2 3 4 A Contrastive Analysis of Inflectional Markings of English and Lari Dialect Verbs: Morphosyntactic Properties vs. Phonological Clitics (PDF). p. 795.
  5. The History of Ancient Iran, Part 3, Volume 7. Richard Nelson Frye. pp. 27–29.
  6. "Larestani, Lari in Iran".
  7. Islamic Desk Reference. E. J. Van Donzel. p. 225.
  8. "Larestani people of Iran". The Larestani people are predominantly Sunni Muslims.
  9. "Larestani". While most people in Iran are Shi’ite Muslims, the Larestani are Sunnis.


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