Dezfuli is one of the southwestern dialects of

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, which is the dialect of a part of the people of

Dezful Dezful (; pronounced ) is a city in the Central District of Dezful County, Khuzestan province, Iran, serving as capital of both the county and the district. History Dezful is one of the oldest cities in the Khuzestan province. According to ...

, who are known as Dezfuli. Dezfuli and Shushtari share common features with the surrounding Luri dialects. A glottologist places Dezfuli-Shushatri dialects in a group called Luri-Dezfuli, which, while being separate from Luri and

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, have a similar status to

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 W ...

. However, other linguists indicate that Dezfuli is a dialect of the

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language that has been influenced by Luri.In the article on the dialects of Khuzestan, Iranika considers the Dezfuli-Shoshtri and Bakhtiari dialects to belong to the southern group of the

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*Colin MacKinnon, http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/dezful-03-dialect *Encyclopædia Iranica https://iranicaonline.org/articles/dezful-03-dialect Persian dialects and varieties Khuzestan province {{ie-lang-stub