Bandar-e Mahshahr

Bandar-e Mahshahr (Persian: بندرماهشهر) [a] is a city in the Central District of Mahshahr County, Khuzestan province, Iran, serving as capital of both the county and the district.[4] Most of its people spoke a dialect that was a mixture of Southern Luri and Bushehri, which is still spoken by some elderly people and by younger generations mostly in rural areas (the dialect though still thrives in Hendijan and especially Genaaveh). But now Mahshahrians are mainly Persian-speaking. Local Persians are mostly of Behbahani, Qanavati, and Bandari families. There is also a local Arabic-speaking minority whose roots go back to Qabban in Iraq.[5]