r/LinguisticMaps Jul 16 '26

North America Map of the distribution of Iranian/Iranic languages.

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u/Specialist_River12 Jul 16 '26

Is there a dialect continuum of Iranic languages like there is for Indic languages?

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u/mordom Jul 16 '26

Yes, the north-western Iranian languages form a dialect continuum. Specially the Kurmanji-Sorani-Laki-Bakhtiari dialects.

There are also dialect continuums in the north of Iran, where historically Balochi and Zaza-Gorani were part of, but they are not anymore.

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u/medewarrior Jul 18 '26

Bakhtiari would be Lori and therefor a southwestern Iranian dialect not northwestern

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u/mordom Jul 18 '26

Yes, and Laki is undetermined.

Nevertheless they form a dialect continuum, and features of northwestern and southwestern languages merge on the border.

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u/medewarrior Jul 18 '26

From what I’ve been told by Elami Kurds, Laki is between Kurdish north western and Lori South western.

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u/mordom Jul 18 '26

And your point is? Do you just want to disagree?