Zoroastrian Dari language

[2] 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.

[2] The roots of the name 'Gabri' date back to the Muslim invasion of Iran and are resented by speakers of Dari to refer to their ethnolect.

The Yazdi dialect has approximately thirty varieties, each distinct and unique to one of the Zoroastrian neighborhoods in and around Yazd.

In order to obtain an economic advantage, speakers are giving up their ethnolect for the dominant dialect of Iran, standard Persian.

Parents intentionally do not transmit Dari to their children in order that they may have what is felt to be an advantage in school and in life.

Since each of Dari's many dialects has a smaller community of speakers, they are more susceptible to the forces driving the language towards extinction.