Lur People (Iranian People)

Lurs are a mixture of aboriginal Iranian (Aryan) tribes, originating from Central Asia.
Some scholars believe that they are the descendants of the Persian tribes who accompanied Cyrus the great and Darius the great.The Lurs were among the original Qizilbash who participated in the Safavid conquest of Iran and the conversion of Iran to Shia Islam. Some Lur sub-tribes accompanied The Mughal in to India and remain in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Prior to the 20th century, the majority of Lurs were nomadic herders.
They occupy Lurestan, Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari, Khuzestan, Isfahan, Fars, Bushehr and Kuh-Gilu-Boir Ahmed provinces. The Lur people mostly speak the Luri language (sometimes called 'Lori'), a Southwestern Iranian language related to Persian. According to the Encyclopaedia of Islam, the Lurs speak an form of Archaic Persian. According to the linguist Don Still, Luri-Bakhtiari alongside modern Persian is derived directly from Old Persian.
Considering their NRY variation, the Lurs are distinguished from other Iranian groups by their relatively elevated frequency of Y-DNA Haplogroup R1b (specifically, of subclade R1b1a2a-L23).[8] Together with it's other clades, the R1 group, associated with Upper Palaeolithic West/Central Eurasia, comprises the single most common haplogroup among the Lurs.
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