Bakhtiari dialect is a dialect of
Southern Luri spoken by
Bakhtiari people in
Chaharmahal-o-Bakhtiari,
Bushehr, western
Khuzestan and parts of
Isfahan and
Lorestan provinces. It is closely related to the Boir-Aḥmadī, Kohgīlūya, and Mamasanī dialects in northwestern
Fars. These dialects, together with the Lori dialects of Lorestan (e.g.
Khorramabadi dialect), are referred to as the
“Perside” southern Zagros group, or
Lori dialects. "Luri and Bakhtiari are much more closely related to Persian, than Kurdish." The Bakhtiari dialect is considered as middle Persian dialect which could survive through history. There do exist transitional dialects between
Southern Kurdish and Lori-Bakhtiāri', and Lori-Bakhtiāri itself may be called a transitional idiom between Kurdish and Persian.
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