Did you know Zoroastrian Dari is endangered?

ALSO KNOWN AS		Dari, "Gabri", "Gabar", "Yazdi", Gabri, Yazdi, Dari, Zoroastrian, Behdinan dialect
CLASSIFICATION		Indo-European, Indo-Iranian, Iranian, Western Iranian
ORTHOGRAPHY		None
CODE AUTHORITY		ISO 639-3
LANGUAGE CODE		gbz
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Information from: “The Dari Language Project” . Annahita Farudi and Maziar Toosarvandani (2004)

Endangered

80 percent certain, based on the evidence available
1,000-9,999
Native speakers worldwide
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"Dari is among Iran's most immediately imperiled languages. According to one estimate, there are only 8,000-15,000 speakers (see Ethnologue), though we believe the number to be much smaller. That number will likely decrease rapidly in coming generations, however, as parents are speaking to their children in Persian, the national language of Iran, rather than in Dari. Already, only a small proportion of Iran's Zoroastrian population speaks Dari."

SPEAKER NUMBER TRENDS

TRANSMISSION

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"The adults’ pride in their language
does not necessarily ensure that they
will speak Dari with their children in the home."

SPEAKER ATTITUDE

Positive

OTHER LANGUAGES USED BY THE COMMUNITY

Persian

LANGUAGE CONTEXT COMMENTS

"The Yazdi Zoroastrians’ desire to maintain the cultural heritage of their respective villages is apparent most strongly in their enthusiastic attitude towards the Dari language in general... [they] seem to take a great pride and interest in their language, and are not, as is often the case among speakers of a minority language, blatantly ashamed of it."

Scripts (Writing system)

None

PLACES: Iran

Threatened

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
1,000
Native speakers worldwide

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At risk

PLACES: Iran; US

Vulnerable

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
11,500
Native speakers worldwide

DATE OF INFO: 1999

PLACES: Iran;

Vulnerable

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
15,000
Native speakers worldwide

16	2009	Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 16th Edition (2009)	M. Paul Lewis	SIL International	Dallas, TX		http://www.ethnologue.com/		Lewis, M. Paul (ed.). 2009. Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 16 edn. http://www.ethnologue.com/home.asp. (15 February, 2011.)	ll_pub	11,500	1999	10000-99999					Vulnerable (20 percent certain, based on the evidence available)				Iran;
	2004	The Dari Language Project				UC Berkeley	http://linguistics.berkeley.edu/~dari/index.html	Annahita Farudi and Maziar Toosarvandani	Annahita Farudi and Maziar Toosarvandani. 2004. "The Dari Language Project." Online: http://linguistics.berkeley.edu/~dari/index.html.				1000-9999	"Dari is among Iran's most immediately imperiled languages. According to one estimate, there are only 8,000-15,000 speakers (see Ethnologue), though we believe the number to be much smaller. That number will likely decrease rapidly in coming generations, however, as parents are speaking to their children in Persian, the national language of Iran, rather than in Dari. Already, only a small proportion of Iran's Zoroastrian population speaks Dari."	Persian	Positive	"The Yazdi Zoroastrians’ desire to maintain the cultural heritage of their respective villages is apparent most strongly in their enthusiastic attitude towards the Dari language in general... [they] seem to take a great pride and interest in their language, and are not, as is often the case among speakers of a minority language, blatantly ashamed of it."	Endangered (80 percent certain, based on the evidence available)	13	"The adults’ pride in their language does not necessarily ensure that they will speak Dari with their children in the home."	14	Iran
	2013	Personal Communication						Habib Borjian	Habib Borjian. 2013. "Personal Communication."											At risk		Iran; US	33.433333, 51.833333
3rd	2010	Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger		UNESCO Publishing	Paris		http://www.unesco.org/culture/en/endangeredlanguages/atlas	Christopher Moseley (ed.)	Moseley, Christopher (ed.). 2010. Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger, 3rd edn. http://www.unesco.org/culture/en/endangeredlanguages/atlas. (03 June, 2011.)	ll_pub	15,000		10000-99999					Vulnerable (20 percent certain, based on the evidence available)					31.8402,54.1625
		Glottolog					http://www.glottolog.org/glottolog/		"Glottolog." Online: http://www.glottolog.org/glottolog/.														31.805181, 54.466658
		World Oral Literature Project					http://www.oralliterature.org		"World Oral Literature Project." Online: http://www.oralliterature.org.		1,000		1000-9999					Threatened (20 percent certain, based on the evidence available)

Zoroastrian Dari

Language metadata

Language information by source

Endangered

80 percent certain, based on the evidence available

1,000-9,999

Threatened

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available

1,000

Vulnerable

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available

11,500

Vulnerable

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available

15,000

Discussion

Zoroastrian Dari

Language metadata

Language information by source

Endangered

80 percent certain, based on the evidence available

1,000-9,999

Threatened

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available

1,000

Vulnerable

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available

11,500

Vulnerable

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available

15,000

Discussion

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