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| caption = | population = 5,400,000 | region1 = | pop1 = | ref1 = | region2 = | pop2 = 517,000 | region3 = | pop3 = 50,000 | region4 = | pop4 = 5,100 | languages = Lurish languages` dialects including: Bakhtiari, Laki & Feyli | religions = Shi'a Islam, Yarsanism | related = Iranian peoples (Persians and Kurds in particular) }} Lurs (also Lors, Lurish: لور, Persian:لُر) are an Iranian people living mainly in western and south-western Iran. Their population is estimated at around five million. They occupy Lorestan, Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad, Khuzestan and Fars (especially Lamerd, Mamasani and Rostam), Bushehr, Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari, Hamadan, Ilam and Isfahan provinces. The Lur people mostly speak the Lurish language (sometimes called "Luri"), a Southwestern Iranian language related to Persian and Kurdish. A large crowd of Lurs is located in Eastern parts of Iraq. In Iraq, as Feyli Lurs and sometimes Feyli Kurds they are mainly located in Diyala province (Khanaqin, Mendeli and Muqdadiyah cities) and Baghdad. According to the Encyclopaedia of Islam, the Lurish language is the closest living language to Archaic and Middle Persian.〔C.S. Coon, "Iran:Demography and Ethnography" in Encyclopaedia of Islam, Volume IV, E.J. Brill, pp 10,8.〕 According to the linguist Don Still, Lori-Bakhtiari like Persian is derived directly from Old Persian.〔Don Stillo, "Isfahan-Provincial Dialects" in Encyclopedia Iranica, Excerpt: "While the modern SWI languages, for instance, Persian, Lori-Bak_tia-ri and others, are derived directly from Old Persian through Middle Persian/Pahlavi"〕 Michael M. Gunter states that Lurs people are closely related to the Kurds but that they "apparently began to be distinguished from the Kurds 1,000 years ago."〔 Lurs are the demographic majority of the provinces of Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad, Ilam, Lorestan and Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari. Half of Khuzestan's population is Lurs and 30% of Bushehr's population is Lurs. ==Language== Richard N. Frye wrote that "the Lurs and their dialects are closely related to the Persians of Fars province, and naturally belong to the southwestern branch of the Iranian peoples...". The Lurish language is divided into two main groups: *The dialect spoken in Luri-i buzurg (Greater Lur) which is closely related to Persian. This dialect is spoken by the inhabitants of Bakhtiari, Kuh-Gilu-Boir Ahmed, in the north and east of Khuzistan, in the Mamasani district of Fars, and in some areas of Bushehr province. *The dialect spoken in Lur-i-Kuchek (Lesser Lor) which is closely related to southern Kurdish, with has some similarities to Persian. This dialect is spoken in Luristan, several districts of Hamadan (Malayer, Nahavand, Towisarkan) and by the inhabitants of south and southwest Ilam and northern part of Khuzestan province. * There is a third group of Luri people who speak Luri-e-Minjaee; they are ethnically part of Lur-e- kuchak but dialectically part of Lur-e-bozorg. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Lurs」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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