High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Lori or Luri (Lori/Persian: ????, pronounced , ) is a collection of Southwestern Iranian languages which are mainly spoken by the Lurs and Bakhtiari people in the Iranian provinces of Loristan, Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari, Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad and parts of Khuzestan and Esfahan province and Fars provinces. Lori is a descendant of a variant of Middle Persian and is lexically similar to modern Persian. According to the linguist Don Stillo: Persian, Lori-Ba?tiari and others, are derived directly from Old Persian through Middle Persian/Pahlavi. These dialects are also referred to as the Persid southern Zagros group. The special character of the Lori language suggests that its spreading area was Iranicized from Persia and not from Media.