Iraqi Lurs
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Iraqi Lurs (Arabic: الوار العراق, Luri:لوره یل عیراق) also referred to as Lurs in Iraq refers to ethnic Iranian people living in Iraq.[1] Iraqi Lurs are a group of Feyli Lurs[clarification needed] located mainly in Baghdad,[2] Wassit[3] and the Diyala Province of Iraq around Mandali, Khaneqin[4][better source needed] and across the Iranian border.[5][6] They consider themselves Kurdish[7] and speak a Southern Kurdish dialect[8][9][10][11][12][13]. Soane (1926), mentioned presence of Feyli Lurs in Kirkuk bazaars.[14] In 1920, Lurs were 4.3% of Nasiriyah city, in Southern Iraq.[15] Freya Stark (1932 and 1934) referred to Luri residence in Iraq and mentioned the Iraqi Lurs as the most beautiful inhabitants of Baghdad.[16][17]
Demographics[edit]
The exact number of Iraqi Lurs is unknown, due to the absence of recent and extensive census data but some sources evaluated their population from 80000[18]to 150000[19] people.
Language[edit]
Feyli is spoken particularly on both sides of the border areas between Iraq and Iran.[5] Schmitt (1989), cited Baghdadi Luri as an Iranian language spoken in Iraq.[20]
Contemporary history[edit]
In Iraq, especially during Baath regime the political situation has been disastrous and tragic toward the Lurs.[18] Since 1975,political factors have resulted in the mass migration of most Iraqi Lurs to Iran, where they share a greater degree of ethnic and religious affinity with the national population. The existence of the Lurs in Iraq has never been marginal. On the contrary, they have participated in all political, social, cultural, and economical activities.[21][22]
References[edit]
- ↑ H.H.Smith, 1971, Area handbook for Iraq, Foreign Area Studies, American University. page;63
- ↑ F.J.Darah, 2013, Failis: the Curse of Compound Identity and Scars of Collective Memory, in : Minorities in Iraq. Memory, identity and challenges, edited by Sa’ad Salloum, Masarat for cultural and Media development, Bagdad-Beyrouth, 2013, (in French, Arabic and English languages). pages;112-126
- ↑ http://www.ncciraq.org/images/infobygov/NCCI_Wassit_Governorate_Profile.pdf
- ↑ Leezenberg, Michiel. 1993. Gorani Influence on Central Kurdish: Substratum or Prestige Borrowing? [Internet] http://www.cogsci.ed.ac.uk [Accessed 15 Feb. 1999]
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 H. Field, Contributions to the Anthropology of Iran, Chicago, 1939.
- ↑ G. R. Fazel, ‘Lur’, in Muslim Peoples: A World Ethnographic Survey, ed. R. V. Weekes (Westport, 1984), pp. 446–447; S. Amanollahi, Qom-e Lor (Tehran, 1991), p. 8
- ↑ Adel Soheil (March 2019). The Iraqi Ba'th Regime's Atrocities Against the Faylee Kurds: Nation-State. pp. 83–84. ISBN 978-91-7785-892-8. Search this book on
- ↑ Sharifi, Shahla; Karimipour, Amir (11 November 2012). "Event Schemas and Thematic Roles in Ilami Dialect of Kurdish". International Journal of Linguistics. 4 (4). doi:10.5296/ijl.v4i4.2336. Retrieved 25 May 2019.
- ↑ Sharifi, Shahla; Karimipour, Amir (23 February 2013). "A Typological Description of Word Order-Rules in Kurdish (Ilami Dialect)". International Journal of Linguistics. 5 (1). doi:10.5296/ijl.v5i1.2434. Retrieved 25 May 2019.
- ↑ "Kermanshah vii. languages and dialects". Iranica Online. Archived from the original on 17 May 2019. Retrieved 24 May 2019. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "Kurdish, Southern". Ethnologue. Archived from the original on 4 July 2017. Retrieved 24 May 2019. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Mohammad Aliakbari, Mojtaba Gheitasi, Erik Anonby (September 2014). "On Language Distribution in Ilam Province, Iran". Iranian Studies. 48 (6): 835–850. doi:10.1080/00210862.2014.913423. Retrieved 25 May 2019.CS1 maint: Multiple names: authors list (link)
- ↑ Saiwan Kamber (2015). Kurdish proverbs and sayings : Feylî dialect, English translation. ISBN 978-91-7569-823-6. Search this book on
- ↑ E.B. Soane, To Mesopotamia and Kurdistan in disguise, with historical Notices of the Kurdish Tribes and the Chaldeans of Kurdistan, (London: John Murray, 1926) (II), 120-124
- ↑ Field Museum of Natural History, 1940, p. 258.
- ↑ F.Stark, 1934, The Valleys of the Assassins: and Other Persian Travels, Modern library
- ↑ F. Stark, 1932, Baghdad Sketches (Travel), Marlboro Press
- ↑ 18.0 18.1 Erik John Anonby (2003). Update on Luri: How many languages?. Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society (Third Series), 13, pp 171-197. doi:10.1017/S1356186303003067.
- ↑ Refugees, United Nations High Commissioner for. "Refworld - World Directory of Minorities and Indigenous Peoples - Iraq : Kurds".
- ↑ Schmitt, Rüdiger (ed.) (1989). Compendium Linguarum Iranicarum (in German). Wiesbaden: Reichert. ISBN 3-88226-413-6 Search this book on .
- ↑ McDowall, David (2004). A modern history of the Kurds (3rd ed.). I.B.Tauris. p. 329. ISBN 9781850434160. Search this book on
- ↑ Minority Rights Group International, World Directory of Minorities and Indigenous Peoples - Iraq : Kurds, October 2014, available at: http://www.refworld.org/docid/49749d09c.html [accessed 25 February 2017]
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