Laki(لەکی; Lekî) is considered a dialect of Southern Kurdish. Lexical similarity with Khorramabadi Luristani is 78%, with Iranian Persian is 70%, and with Northern Luri is 69%.Laki is spoken in the central Zagros region of Iran (provinces of Lorestan, Kermanshah, Ilam, and in much smaller numbers in Qazvin, Hamedan, and Khuzestan). Laki speakers dominate southeastern Kermanshah, and northern Lorestan, and small portion of western Ilam.