Korouni dialect

Korouni (Kurdish: کرونی) is a Southern Kurdish dialect of Fars and Kurdistan.^[1] Koruni is a Kurdish tribe of Kurdistan and Fars. Most of the tribe was transplanted from Kurdistan to Fars by Karim Khan Zand during the 1760s.^[1]

Korouni
کرونی
Native to	Iran
Language family	Indo-European Indo-Iranian Iranian Western Northwestern Kurdish Southern Korouni
Official status
Regulated by	Academy of Persian Language and Literature
Language codes
ISO 639-3	–
Glottolog	None

The speakers of Korouni live in scattered pockets in Southern Iranian Fars province around Shiraz, Sepidan and Kazerun. The succeeding information is about the dialect spoken around the latter two cities.^[2]

See also

• Kuruni (tribe)
• Koruni, Shiraz
• Dialects of Fars
• Northwestern Iranian languages
• Iranian languages