Shushtari dialect

Shushtari (Persian: شوشتری [ʃuːʃtæˈɾiː]) is a language variety spoken in and around the city of Shushtar in Khuzestan Province in southwestern Iran. It constitutes a Southwestern Iranian dialect group with the Dezfuli dialect, which is spoken in Dezful, the adjacent city.^[4][5] The main difference between Dezfuli and Shushtari is in vowel pronunciation.^[6][7] The list of linguists has classified Shushtri-Dezfuli dialect independently from Persian.^[8] Glottolog places Dezfuli-Shoshtri dialects next to Lori language in a group called Lori-Dezfuli.^[9] In the article on the dialects of Khuzestan, Iranica considers the Dezfuli-Shoshtri and Bakhtiari dialects to belong to the southern group of the Luri language.^[10]