Lari Language (Congo)
Lari may refer to: * Lari language (Iran), or Achomi, a language of Iran * Lari dialect (Sindhi), a dialect of the Sindhi language of Pakistan * Lari language (Congo), a variety of the Kongo language of Congo See also * Luri language, Iran * Luri language (West Chadic), Nigeria * Laarim language Laarim (Larim, Longarim) or Narim is a Surmic language spoken by the Laarim people of the Laarim Hills of South Sudan. Distribution According to ''Ethnologue'', Laarim is spoken in 10 villages of northern Budi County, Eastern Equatoria State. Sti ...

Lari Language (Iran)
Achomi (), also known as Khodmooni and Larestani, is a Middle Persian (Parsig) derived and Southwestern Iranian languages, Southwestern Iranian language spoken by the Achomi people in southern Fars province, Fars and western Hormozgan province, Hormozgan and by significant numbers of Ajam citizens in the UAE, Bahrain, Kuwait, and other neighbouring countries. It is the predominant language of Gerash County, Gerash, Larestan County, Larestan, Lamerd County, Lamerd, Khonj County, Khonj, and Evaz County, Evaz counties in Fars and Bastak County and Ruydar in Hormozgan province. Moreover, many cities, towns, and villages in Iran have their own particular dialect, such as Larestan County, Larestan, Khonj County, Khonj, Gerash County, Gerash, Evaz County, Evaz, Ashkanan, Bastak, Lar, Iran, Lar, and Banaruiyeh. The majority of Achomi speakers are Sunni Islam, Sunni Muslims, with a minority being Shia Islam, Shia Muslims. The Achomi language is considered a descendant of the Sasanian ...
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Lari Dialect (Sindhi)
Lari is a dialect of the Sindhi language, which is spoken by the people living in "Laar" region of Sindh, and the dialect of this region is called "Lari". The term Lari is also used for anything which is related to Laar region, like people, food, rituals, traditions, dress etc. The areas along the Indus River and its estuary are called "Laar". Laar means the sloping or lower part, which seems to go with the sea. In Laar, From Badin, Tando Bago, Bulri Sharif, Sujawal, Thatta and Karachi parts are included in Laar. The local dialect is called Lari dialect. Shah Abdul Latif's Risalo, Shah Karim's book, etc. are written in this dialect. In the Lari dialect the accent, some vocabulary is different, it is closely related to lasi, Kohistani and kutchi dialects of Sindhi, Lari preserves ancient peculiarities that do not appear in the standard dialect. The most important of these are the disaspiration of sonant aspirates, and the frequent change of cerebral r to dental r. It is well k ...
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Lari Language (Congo)
Lari may refer to: * Lari language (Iran), or Achomi, a language of Iran * Lari dialect (Sindhi), a dialect of the Sindhi language of Pakistan * Lari language (Congo), a variety of the Kongo language of Congo See also * Luri language, Iran * Luri language (West Chadic), Nigeria * Laarim language Laarim (Larim, Longarim) or Narim is a Surmic language spoken by the Laarim people of the Laarim Hills of South Sudan. Distribution According to ''Ethnologue'', Laarim is spoken in 10 villages of northern Budi County, Eastern Equatoria State. Sti ...

Kongo Language
Kongo or Kikongo is one of the Bantu languages spoken by the Kongo people living in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the Republic of the Congo, Gabon, and Angola. It is a tonal language. The vast majority of present-day speakers live in Africa. There are roughly seven million native speakers of Kongo in the above-named countries. An estimated five million more speakers use it as a second language. Historically, it was spoken by many of those Africans who for centuries were taken captive, transported across the Atlantic, and sold as slaves in the Americas. For this reason, creolized forms of the language are found in ritual speech of Afro-American religions, especially in Brazil, Cuba, Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic, Haiti, and Suriname. It is also one of the sources of the Gullah language, which formed in the Low Country and Sea Islands of the United States Southeast. The Palenquero creole in Colombia is also related to Kong creole. Geographic distribution Kongo wa ...
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Luri Language
Luri (, ) is a Southwestern Iranian language continuum spoken by the Lurs, an Iranian people native to West Asia. The Luri dialects are descended from Middle Persian and are Central Luri, Bakhtiari,G. R. Fazel, 'Lur', in Muslim Peoples: A World Ethnographic Survey, ed. R. V. Weekes (Westport, 1984), pp. 446–447 and Southern Luri. This language is spoken mainly by the Bakhtiari and the Northern and Southern Lurs ( Lorestan, Ilam, Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad, Mamasani, Sepidan, Bandar Ganaveh, Bandar Deylam) in Iran. History The '' Encyclopedia of Islam'' calls Luri “an aberrant form of archaic Persian.” The language descends from either Middle Persian or Old Persian. It belongs to the “''Perside'' southern Zagros group” (as opposed to Kurdish dialects of northern Zagros), and is lexically similar to modern Persian, differing mainly in phonology. According to the '' Encyclopædia Iranica'', "All Lori dialects closely resemble standard Persian and probably dev ...
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Luri Language (West Chadic)
Polci (Pəlci, Posə) is an Afro-Asiatic language of Bauchi State, Nigeria. It is part of the Barawa cluster, which is in turn part of the West Chadic language family. Dialects The Polci language is one of six dialect clusters of the Zaar subgroup of the Barawa branch of the Chadic languages. The Polci dialects are Zul, Baram (Mbaram), Dir, Buli, Nyamzak/Langas, and Polci proper.Blench, 2006The Afro-Asiatic Languages: Classification and Reference List(ms) An extinct dialect called Luri was possibly dialect of Polci as well, but it is not well attested. History of scholarship There have been several attempts to clarify the linguistic situation in the southern and southwestern part of Bauchi State, Nigeria, of which the Polci cluster and Polci language are a part. In 1971, John Ballard, working with the Department of Linguistics and Nigerian Languages, University of Ibadan, did an extensive linguistic survey of the Nigerian Middle Belt published ''Historical inferences from t ...
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