found: Work cat.: Shāhnāmah-ʾi Lakī, 2005 or 2006.
found: Ethnologue, via WWW, Jan. 30, 2007(Laki, a language of Iran; region: Western Iran, Ilam, Lorestan provinces, cities of Aleshtar, Kuhdesht, Nurabad-e Dolfan, Khorramabad. Alternate names: Leki, Alaki. Classification: Indo-European, Indo-Iranian, Iranian, Western, Northwestern, Kurdish)
found: Wikipedia, Jan. 30, 2007(Laki is a northwestern Iranian language and a branch of Kurdish spoken in the central Zagros region of Iran (provinces of Ilam, Lorestan and Khuzestan) by the Laks); Aug. 7, 2009 (Laki or Leki is a Northwestern Iranian language. According to the distinguished scholar of Iranian languages David Neil MacKenzie, Laki is a separate language from Kurdish, Gurani, and Luri although they all share a large amount of vocabulary. According to Britannica it is classified as a dialect of Kurdish along with Zazaki and Gurani, although Ethnologue has cited its lexical similarity with the Lurish language (78%) and Persian language (70%))
found: Kurdish Academy of Language Web site, Jan. 30, 2007:dialectology/Southern Group/Laki (Laki (Lekí); a major dialect of Gurâni and is treated here separately not on linguistic grounds, but ethnological. The speakers of Laki have been steadily pulling away from the main body of Kurds, increasingly associating with their neighbouring ethnic group, the Lurs; pockets of Laki speakers are found in Azerbaijan, the Alburz mountains, the Caspian coastal region, the Khurasani enclave (as far south as Birjand), the mountainous land between Qum and Kâshân, and the region between Adiyaman and the Ceyhan River in far western Kurdistan in Anatolia; basic grammar and verb systems of Laki are, like in all other Kurdish dialects, clearly Northwest Iranic)
