• Threatened

  20 percent certain, based on the evidence available

• <14,000?

  Native speakers worldwide
• Ethnic population

  27,900?

• MORE ON SPEAKER NUMBERS

  "The population of the district decreased from 30,300 in the early 1950s (Razmārā, p. 55) to nearly 27,900 in 1996 (Sāzmān-e barnāma, pp. 2, 6), in contrast to the high national growth ... Only about half of the villages of the district have retained their idioms."

DATE OF INFO

1996

PLACES

Iran

LOCATION DESCRIPTION

Jarquya district: the villages of Ganjābād, Siān, Yangābād, Peykān, Mazraʿa-ʿArab, and Ḥaydarābād in Lower Jarquya (north), and Dastgerd, Kamālābād, Ḥasanābād, Ḵārā, and Yaḵčāl in Upper Jarquya.