Languages of your country

Vancouver, Canada:

(Based on 2001 statistics)

English: 49%
Chinese (mostly Cantonese, but also Mandarin/Taiwanese): 26.4%
Punjabi: 2.7%
Tagalog: 2.4%
Vietnmese: 2.2%
...<2%, in order:
French, Spanish, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Hindi, Portuguese, Persian, Polish, Russian, Greek...

In recent years, there has been a large influx of Korean and Persian speakers, which would significantly skew these results. Chinese dialects still dominate as the de facto second language of the city. Interestingly, Vancouver has virtually no Arabic or Turkish speaking communities, unlike Europe. We also have a very large migrant ESL-student community of Japanese, Korean and Spanish speakers during the summer months. =) 

(Aside: I believe i am one of only a few hundred Hebrew speakers in the region, and perhaps the only non-Zionist Hebrew speaker in the city.)

1%=700,000 we have more than 5 million Lurs, Domaris, Bakhtiaris, ..., don't you think so? Maybe you think they all speak Persian?!!

There are more than 2% Lor for sure. Lors are spread all over the place.

What about Laks?  They number at about 1,000,000 - they own Kermanshah now, they invaded from Ellam 20 years ago and pushed out the Persians and city Lors & Kurds who mostly relocated to Tehran.

Cent: Population of Kordestan province is 1.5 Million at most, maybe there are 300,000 Kurds (at most) in West Azarbaijan (total population 3m), in Kermanshah 65% of the 1.8 million population  are Kurds, so that is 1.2m and there are at most 100,000 (of total 550k) at most in Illam. (3.1m)

I don't know where your 6 million figure comes from, but it is probably from uneducated hyper nationalist sources that claim Lors and everyone else in Western Iran to be Kurds. But there are about 1.5m Kurds also in Eastern Iran.

This is a very good map from 2004.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/de/Iran_ethn oreligious_distribution_2004.jpg

originally posted by zagros (im just going to post the whole map so people can see):

By the way Zagros, I've never claimed Lurs to be Kurds...

Zagros, to be honest: Nationalist sites.

Yes, they probably do, more Lak than Luri, because if you count Luri the figure would be 10 million at least.

Laks are wild. some clans made lots of money from contraband (smuggling) my cousin told me of one family who bought a mansion in Kermanshah, and used the swimming pool as a sheep pen, because that is what they thought it was for.

And one time there was a feud between two clans they started gun battles between streets and one clan had a refurbished Iraqi tank from the Iran/Iraq war, the police were too scared to do anything, the army had to be called in.

"Yes, they probably do, more Lak than Luri, because if you count Luri the figure would be 10 million at least.

Laks are wild. some clans made lots of money from contraband (smuggling) my cousin told me of one family who bought a mansion in Kermanshah, and used the swimming pool as a sheep pen, because that is what they thought it was for.

And one time there was a feud between two clans they started gun battles between streets and one clan had a refurbished Iraqi tank from the Iran/Iraq war, the police were too scared to do anything, the army had to be called in."

True.

Haha, nice. I know some Lak people, and they speak Kermanshahini kurdish. But what language do they regulary speak? Persian?

 

The numbers Cyrus has mixes the old and new numbers there were 22 million Persian speakers in Iran when population was 35 mil not now that the population is almost 70 mil. Number of Azeri speakers at that time was about 10 mil. The real numbers currently is not really known since most people moving to the bigger cities don't pass on their original language they spoke to their children and adopt Persian

The problem with Kurdish is that the official number is at 7% but many speak dialects that are closer to Persian than the language spoken by the Kurds in Turkey or Syria

Here is what Wikipedia has on this:

The number of Persian-speakers of Iran is estimated more than 42 millions, (see: Persian people) ( Ethnologue using an obsolete and old information claims that in 1997 there were 22 million native speakers of Persian language spoken in Iran). Other major languages in Iran are Azeri (c. 16.8 million), Kurdish (7.6 million) (Northern, Central, Southern and Laki), Gilaki (3.265 million), Mazandarani (3.265 million), Luri (2.375 million), Turkmen (2 million), Bakhtiari (1 million).

 

prsn4life,

those maps dont tell us the whole truth. they only show where the OTHER language groups exist, without really telling us whether they are majority or w/e. The fact the matter is Persian is spoken all over Iran. and other languages are also spoken.

...plus how can CIA ever tell us what we have in our nation, there are no official statistics in Iran anyway, so those are all estimates. and we all know CIA and their propaganda. It says 54% speak persian in Iran.

well, In reality, I believe, there are 50-75 Persians (though it does not matter). and Persian is spoken by %100 of country.

also Arabic is also taught in school, so perhaps 50% know how to communicate in arabic fluently.