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Judeo-Yazdi
Zoroastrian Dari ( fa, دری زرتشتی or گویش بهدینان literally Behdīnān dialect) is a Persian dialect and a Northwestern Iranian languages, Northwestern Iranian. 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 Zoroastrianism, Zoroastrians in and around the cities of Yazd and Kerman in central Iran, and by the Irani (India), Irani community in India. Dari is also known as Behdināni or pejoratively as Gabri (sometimes Gavrŭni or Gabrōni).. Dari has numerous dialects. Genealogy Genealogically, Dari Persian is a member of the Western Iranian languages#Northwestern Iranian, Northwestern Iranian language subfamily, which includes several other closely related languages, for instance, Kurdish language, Kurdish, Zazaki, and Balochi language, Balochi.. These Northwestern Iranian languages are a branch of the larger Western Irania ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Iran
Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and also called Persia, is a country located in Western Asia. It is bordered by Iraq and Turkey to the west, by Azerbaijan and Armenia to the northwest, by the Caspian Sea and Turkmenistan to the north, by Afghanistan and Pakistan to the east, and by the Gulf of Oman and the Persian Gulf to the south. It covers an area of , making it the 17th-largest country. Iran has a population of 86 million, making it the 17th-most populous country in the world, and the second-largest in the Middle East. Its largest cities, in descending order, are the capital Tehran, Mashhad, Isfahan, Karaj, Shiraz, and Tabriz. The country is home to one of the world's oldest civilizations, beginning with the formation of the Elamite kingdoms in the fourth millennium BC. It was first unified by the Medes, an ancient Iranian people, in the seventh century BC, and reached its territorial height in the sixth century BC, when Cyrus the Great fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |