Zoroastrian Dari

Zoroastrian Dari (Persian: دری زرتشتی), also known as the Behdinan 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.

It is also known as Behdīnānī or sometimes pejoratively as Gabrī (sometimes Gavrūnī or Gabrōnī). It has numerous dialects.

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