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| Total population | |
|---|---|
| ~1 million (2022)[1] | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
 Iran Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari Province, parts of: Khuzestan, Isfahan, Markazi, Lorestan | |
| Languages | |
| Bakhtiari Luri | |
| Religion | |
| Shia Islam | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
| Other Lurs |
The Bakhtiari (also spelled Bakhtiyari; Persian:بختیاری) are a Lur tribe[2] from Iran. They speak the Bakhtiari dialect of the Luri language.[3][4]
Bakhtiaris primarily inhabit Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari and eastern Khuzestan, Lorestan, Bushehr, and Isfahan provinces. Bakhtiari tribes have an especially large population concentration in the cities of Masjed Soleyman, Izeh, Shahr-e Kord, and Andika, and the surrounding villages.[citation needed]
A small percentage of Bakhtiari are still nomadic pastoralists, migrating between summer quarters (sardsīr or yaylāq) and winter quarters (garmsīr or qishlāq).[5]
- ^ "Bakhtyari (people)". ethnologue. 19 November 2019.
- ^ Gibb, H.A.R., ed. (1954). "LUR". The Encyclopaedia of Islam. Brill Archive. p. 821. ISBN 978-9004060562.
Lur -- an Iranian people living in the mountains in southwestern Persia. As in the case of the Kurds, the principal link among the four branches of the Lurs (Mamasani, Kuhghilu'i, Bakthiari, and Lur proper) is that of language.
- ^ "Bakhtiâri". Ethnologue. Retrieved 27 April 2015.
- ^ "LORI DIALECTS". Retrieved 27 April 2015.
- ^ "BAḴTĪĀRĪ TRIBE". Iranica Online. 1988. Archived from the original on 2011-04-29.