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	Luri language - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		Luri and the rest of the Persid languages belong to the South-eastern branch of the Iranian languages.
		Luri is mainly spoken in the Iranian provinces of Lorestan, Ilam, Chahar Mahaal and Bakhtiari, Kohkiluyeh and Buyer Ahmad and parts of Khuzestan.
		Luri is also a commune of the Haute-Corse département in France, on the island of Corsica.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Luri (212 words)

	Persian Language
		Persian is a subgroup of West Iranian languages that include the closely related Persian languages of Dari and Tajik; the less closely related languages of Luri, Bakhtiari and Kumzari; and the non-Persian dialects of Fars Province.
		Luri and Bakhtiari, languages in the southwest part of Iran, are most closely related Farsi, but these are difficult for a speaker of the Tehran standard to understand.
		The Early Modern period of the language (ninth to thirteenth centuries), preserved in the literature of the Empire, is known as Classical Persian, due to the eminence and distinction of poets such as Roudaki, Ferdowsi, and Khayyam.
	www.iranchamber.com /literature/articles/persian_language.php (1384 words)

	Kurdish language
		The Kurdish language is spoken in parts of Iran, Iraq, Syria and Turkey.
		The Kurdish language was derived from the ancient "Median" language or "Proto-Kurdish".
		All the native designators for local language and dialects are based on the way the spoken language of one group sounds to the unfamiliar ears of the other.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ku/Kurdish_language.html (364 words)

	Luri language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		For the town in France, see Luri, Haute-Corse.
		See IPA chart for English for an English-based pronunciation key.
		Luri is a southwestern Iranian language and is mainly spoken by the Lurs and Bakhtiari people in the Iranian provinces of Lorestan, Ilam, Chahar Mahaal and Bakhtiari, Kohkiluyeh and Buyer Ahmad and parts of Khuzestan.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Luri_language (95 words)

	UCLA Language Materials Project Language Profiles Page
		Luri and Bakhtiari, languages in the southwest part of Iran, are most closely related Farsi, but these are difficult for a speaker of the Teheran standard to understand.
		For example, it was an important language during the reign of the Moguls in Indian where knowledge of Persian was cultivated and encouraged; its use in the courts of Mogul India ended in 1837, banned by officials of the East Indian Company.
		The Early Modern period of the language (ninth to thirteenth centuries), preserved in the literature of the Empire, is known as Classical Persian, due to the eminence and distinction of poets such as Rudaki, Firdowsi, and Khayyam.
	www.lmp.ucla.edu /Profile.aspx?LangID=63 (1526 words)

	People Group Profiles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		The Luri speak a language, also called "Luri," that is very similar to modern Persian, or "Farsi." Since the Luri men regularly have contacts outside their own communities, they are generally bilingual.
		Luri society is dominated by those possessing the largest herds and the most money.
		The Luri live in a constant state of political unrest, and there is a tremendous need for true inner peace.
	www.fbchsv.org /missions/global/guide/PG_profiles.html (1476 words)

	Foundation For Endangered Languages Issue 23.
		She records the name of the language as Luri or Zagsi (presumably a version of Zakshi) and says that Luri was still spoken when she visited.
		The Panawa (Bujiyel) language forms part of the ‘Jere cluster’ and is in turn part of the Northern Jos group of the East Kainji languages spoken north of the town of Jos in Central Nigeria.
		The Tunzu (Duguza) language is an East Kainji language spoken northeast of Jos town in Central Nigeria.
	www.ogmios.org /236.htm (2154 words)

	The Kurdish People: an Analysis by language, geography, religion and ethnicity
		Each language tends to borrow terms from the dominant language in their geopolitical sphere, thus Kurmanji in Turkey has borrowed more from Turkish, while Sorani speakers in Iran and Hawrami speakers have borrowed from Persian, while Sorani speakers in Iraq tend to borrow Arabic terms.
		The respective speech forms classified by SIL as dialects of the various languages, however, remain mutually intelligible among themselves, while the broader languages are characterized as not mutually intelligible.
		Language will be a primary identifying factor among the Kurdish people, and thus a primary factor in considering communication strategy.
	www.spongobongo.com /her9707.htm (2181 words)

	Etymologie, Étymologie, Etymology - UG Uganda - Sprache, Langue, Language (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		ethnologue - Jie - Language of UG (E3)(L1) http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=kdj
		ethnologue - Jo Alur - Language of UG (E3)(L1) http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=alz
		ethnologue - Rwanda - Language of UG (E3)(L1) http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=kin
	www.etymologie.info /~e/u_/ug-sprach.html (2717 words)

	Africa: UNESCO-CI
		An assessment of language endangerment in Africa is difficult to establish because the criteria applied to measure endangerment differ.
		Ethnologue: Languages of the World (Grimes 2000) identifies 37 African languages that are on the verge of extinction (compared with 161 in the Americas).
		A major problem concerning the safeguarding of linguistic diversity in Africa is the lack of documentation on languages and language speakers, and national linguistic policies that neglect the importance of African languages for development.
	portal.unesco.org /ci/en/ev.php-URL_ID=8048&URL_DO=DO_PRINTPAGE&URL_SECTION=201.html (927 words)

	LANGUAGE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		The opportunity to write Book Notices is offered to all readers of Language whether or not they are LSA members, though the editor reserves the right to decline to send books to volunteers whose previous Book Notices have presented substantive or stylistic problems that increase the time required for editing.
		Philosophical languages in the seventeenth century: Dalgarno, Wilkins, Leibniz.
		: A Philippine language on the brink of extinction.
	www.cas.sc.edu /LING/Language_Book_Reviews/book-notice-list.htm (527 words)

	Where Do They Speak THAT? - Encyclopedia FunTrivia
		Luristan is in South West Iran, and the Luri language is part of the Iranian branch of the vast Indo-European family.
		It's an Austronesian language spoken in (surprise!) Pampanga in Luzon.
		A Turkic language, formerly of an Empire in the Mongolia region.
	www.funtrivia.com /en/subtopics/Where-Do-They-Speak-THAT-194106.html (1328 words)

	Iranian Ethnic Groups (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		Persian is a West Iranian language of the Indo-European family of languages and is spoken in those parts of Iran where the Fars people, Persians, dwell, as well as in the Republic of Tajikistan.
		The language is an abandoned dialect of Persian.
		The Luri language is affixed to the old Iranian language, which suggests the length of time that the Lur have lived in Iran.
	www.iranchamber.com /people/iranian_ethnic_groups.php (2792 words)

	Language
		Language families can be divided into smaller phylogenetic units, conventionally referred to as branches of the family, because the history of a language family is often represented as a tree diagram.
		Languages that cannot be reliably classified into any family are known as language isolates.
		A language isolated in its own branch within a family, such as Greek within Indo-European, is often also called an isolate, but such cases are usually clarified.
	www.angindia.com /biographyland/biography_language.html (454 words)

	Iranian Ethnic Groups
		The official language of Iran is Persian (the Persian term for which is Farsi).
		It is the language of government and public instruction and is the mother tongue of half of the population.
		Persian is spoken as a second language by a large proportion of the rest.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/world/iran/groups.htm (755 words)

	About Iran
		The official language of Iran is Persian (Farsi).
		It is an Indo-European language in the same family as English.
		The Luri are having serious economic and political difficulties.
	home.arcor.de /savingfaith/Englisch/About_Iran/about_iran.html (436 words)

	The Bakhtiari of Iran - Photos and links
		This is not Luri language but many people say it is since some Bakhtiari people call their language Lur.
		The Bakhtiari language is part of the Persian family of languages and is not Turkic.
		Dialects: LURI, FEYLI, LEKI (LAKI, ALAKI), BAKHTIARI, KELHURI.
	www.everytongue.com /bakhtiari (557 words)

	The Unreached Peoples Prayer Profiles
		Others suggest that they immigrated there from Syria during the seventh century A.D. Most of the Luri are nomadic shepherds, traveling with their flocks from place to place.
		Like most other shepherds of the Zagros, the Luri live as nomads, traveling six to eight months out of the year and living in fl goat-hair tents.
		One hindrance in reaching the Luri with the Gospel is the fact that they are a nomadic people who travel from place to place.
	kcm.co.kr /bethany_eng/p_code/1837.html (765 words)

	Indo-Iranian languages - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		The Indo-Iranian language group constitutes the easternmost extant branch of the Indo-European family of languages.
		According to most Aryan migration theories, speakers of the Proto-Indo-Iranian language, who referred to themselves as Aryans, settled east and south of the Caspian Sea in Northern India, Pakistan, Iran and Afghanistan.
		The contemporary Indo-Iranian languages form the largest sub-branch of Indo-European, with more than one billion speakers in total, stretching from Europe (Romani) and the Caucasus (Ossetian) to South India (Marathi).
	72.51.33.237 /cgi-bin/nph-surf.cgi/010110A/uggc/ra.jvxvcrqvn.bet/jvxv/Vaqb-Venavna_ynathntrf (208 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		Also, the sciences and knowledge of Elam and Mesopotamia, mathematics and astronomy, was transmitted to the Persian Empire by the Elamite scribes who made their language one of the three official languages of the empire.
		All dialects are influenced by the language of the Elamites and the Kassites.
		Both Persian and Luri come from the language of the Parthians of the 8th century A.C. Map of Luristan in Western Iran.
	heim.ifi.uio.no /~peyman/lur.html (2618 words)

	Where Do They Speak THAT? quiz -- free game
		The language Tamazight can be found in one of these places.
		The language (not the cow!) Frisian comes from one of these pairs of places.
		Sami (the language, but there is a people called this too) is found somewhere.
	www.funtrivia.com /playquiz.cfm?qid=194106&origin= (196 words)

	LINGUIST List 14.702: Language Description, Luri: Anonby
		Although closely related to both Bakhtiari and Farsi, the language is nonetheless distinguished by a number of particular-an d at times striking-phonological characteristics.
		The study addresses the impact of borrowing on the language and concludes with a pr�cis on speech style, stress and intonation processes.
		In addition to comparative work on the Luri languages, he has published poetry and numerous articles as well as the longer works Bahendayal: Bird Classification in Luri (forthcoming), A Sociolinguistic Survey of the Zaghawa (Beria) of Chad and Sudan (2000) and An Analysis of Name-transference in LXX Isaiah 1-12(1997).
	www.ling.ed.ac.uk /linguist/issues/14/14-702.html (379 words)

	PACC
		Bakhtiari is on a dialect continuum between Northern Luri and Southern Luri.
		Eshtehardi may be the same language as some other dialects spoken to the southwest of Qazvin.
		Southern Luri is on a continuum between Bakhtiari and Western Farsi "dialects" such as Bushehri and Fars Province varieties.
	ctr.usf.edu /pacc/Iran/Culture/Language.html (1839 words)

	Related Articles on Kurdish Language
		In borrowing, by contrast, both languages are maintained throughout the period of interference; lexical items, especially items of nonbasic vocabulary, are invariably the first borrowed elements; more intensive contact may also lead to the borrowing of structural (i.e., phonological and syntactic) elements.
		This is just one instance of the general point that not 'objective' factors such as language (in the genetic, linguistic sense), but rather 'subjective' ones, like self-perception and significance attached to such 'facts' (which, as we saw, are open to discussion anyway) are fundamental in determining ethnic identity (pace Isajiv 1974).
		In so far as there has been a major language shift among 'the Goran' (which strictly speaking, a misnomer for the ethnic group as a whole), the observation, made by various local informants, that such a shift took place in the past 150 years is worth considering.
	www.kurdishacademy.org /english/articles/articles-006.html (7953 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		Luris number more than 5 million, and primarily inhabit the central Zagros Mountains of Iran.
		The majority are pastoral nomads, but due to government programs, many Luris have settled down as farmers.
		Their spoken language is Luri, but many are learning Farsi, Iran's trade language.
	www.global-prayer-digest.org /dailydata/getdaily.asp?which=chosenday&whichyear=2006&whichmonth=1&whichday=12 (369 words)

	List of Southwestern Iranian languages - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Southwestern Iranian languages include some 16 (SIL estimate) languages and dialects spoken by about many people in Asia; this language family is a part of the Western Iranian language family.
		Each subfamily in this list contains subgroups and individual languages.
		This page was last modified 12:30, 16 June 2006.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_Southwestern_Iranian_languages (83 words)

	Iran - PEOPLES AND LANGUAGES (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		Iran has a heterogeneous population speaking a variety of Indo-Iranian, Semitic, and Turkic languages.
		The largest language group consists of the speakers of Indo-Iranian languages, who in 1986 comprised about 70 percent of the population.
		The speakers of Indo-Iranian languages are not, however, a homogeneous group.
	countrystudies.us /iran/36.htm (65 words)

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