| Laki | ||
|---|---|---|
| Spoken in | Iran, Iraq | |
| Region | Central Zagros | |
| Total speakers | ca. 1,500,000. | |
| Language family | Indo-European | |
| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-1 | None | |
| ISO 639-2 | – | |
| ISO 639-3 | lki – Laki | |
| Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. | ||
Laki or Leki (لهکی) is a Northwestern Iranian language. Although usually it is grouped along with Southern Kurdish dialects, Ethnologue classifies it as a fourth subgroup of Kurdish. Ethnologue has cited its lexical similarity with the Lurish language as 78% and Persian Language as 70%.[1][2] It is spoken in the central Zagros region of Iran (provinces of Ilam, Lorestan, Kermanshah, Hamedan, Qazvin, Khuzestan) and small parts of Iraq by the Lak people.
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