Abduyi dialect

{{Short description|Northwestern Iranian language}}

{{Infobox language

| name = Abduyi

| nativename = {{lang|ku|عبدویی}}

| pronunciation =

| states = Iran

| region =

| speakers = ca. 600

| ref = {{citation needed|date=August 2013}}

| familycolor = Indo-European

| fam2 = Indo-Iranian

| fam3 = Iranian

| fam4 = Western Iranian

| fam5 = Northwestern Iranian

| fam6 = Kurdish

| fam7 = (unclassified){{Cite book |title=Die Tâjîk-Mundarten der Provinz Fârs |last=Mann |first=Oskar |publisher=De Gruyter |year=2018 |isbn=9783111696911 |edition=Reprint 2018 |pages=135 |language=de |url=https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783111696911/html |work=Kurdisch-persische Forschungen |volume=1 |doi=10.1515/9783111696911 |access-date=2024-12-25 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221101120846/www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783111696911/html |archive-date=2022-11-01 |url-status=live}}

| agency = Academy of Persian Language and Literature

| isoexception = dialect

| glotto = none

| date = no date

}}

The Abduyi dialect ({{langx|ku|عبدویی}}, UniPers: Abduyi) is a Northwestern Iranian languageSalami, A., 1384 AP / 2005 AD. Ganjineye guyeššenâsiye Fârs (The treasury of the dialectology of Fars). Second Volume, P. 13, Academy of Persian Language and Literature. [http://persianacademy.ir/fa/ganjifars02.aspx] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101205170341/http://www.persianacademy.ir/fa/ganjifars02.aspx|date=2010-12-05}} {{ISBN|964-7531-39-7}} {{in lang|fa}} spoken in the village of Abdui, which can be reached from Kazerun city in Southern Iran via the old Shiraz-Kazerun road after 36 kilometers. The number of households in the village was approximately 120 in 2004.Salami, A., 1383 AP / 2004 AD. Ganjineye guyeššenâsiye Fârs (The treasury of the dialectology of Fars). First Volume, The academy of Persian language and literature. [http://persianacademy.ir/fa/ganjifars01.aspx] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070723105226/http://persianacademy.ir/fa/ganjifars01.aspx|date=2007-07-23}} {{ISBN|964-7531-32-X}} {{in lang|fa}} Most researchers identify the dialect as Kurdish.{{cite encyclopedia |url=http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/fars-viii |title=FĀRS viii. Dialects |author=Windfuhr, Gernot |date=15 December 1999 |encyclopedia=Encyclopaedia Iranica Online |publisher=Columbia University |location=New York |accessdate=2010-05-23 |quote=The southeast Kurdish dialect of the village pair of Kalānī and ʿAbdūʾī of Kāzerūn (Mann 1909, pp. 135-35; Zhukovskiĭ, Materialy, texts, pp. 75-81; Andreas, ed. Barr, pp. 359-483).}}