Abduyi | |
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عبدویی | |
Native to | Iran |
Native speakers | ca. 600[citation needed] |
Language family | Indo-European
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Official status | |
Regulated by | Academy of Persian Language and Literature |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | – |
Glottolog | None |
The Abduyi dialect (Kurdish: عبدویی, UniPers: Abduyi) is a Northwestern Iranian language[1] spoken in the village of Abdui, which can be reached from Kazerun city in Southern Iran via the old Shiraz-Kazerun road after 36 kilometers. The number of households in the village was approximately 120 in 2004.[2] Most researchers identify the dialect as Kurdish.[3]
The southeast Kurdish dialect of the village pair of Kalānī and ʿAbdūʾī of Kāzerūn (Mann 1909, pp. 135-35; Zhukovskiĭ, Materialy, texts, pp. 75-81; Andreas, ed. Barr, pp. 359-483).