Zoroastrian Dari language
| Zoroastrian Dari | |
|---|---|
| Gabri | |
| Yazdi | |
| Native to | Central Iran |
| Region | Yazd and Kerman |
Native speakers | (8,000 cited 1999) |
Indo-European
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | gbz |
| Glottolog | zoro1242 |
| ELP | |
Zoroastrian Dari (Persian: دری زرتشتی), also known as the Bahdinan dialect (گویش بهدینان) and often simply known as Dari, is a Northwestern Iranian language, and specifically a variety of the Central Plateau languages. This language has been described as an ethnolect.
Zoroastrian Dari used to be spoken by almost a million people in central Iran, up until the 1880s. Nowadays, it is used as a first language by an estimated 8,000 to 15,000 Zoroastrians in and around the cities of Yazd and Kerman in central Iran, and by the Irani community in India.
Dari is also known as Behdināni or pejoratively as Gabri (sometimes Gavrŭni or Gabrōni). Dari has numerous dialects.