A Group of ladies singing a Dari song called Chak Chak
Also Known As:
Dari, "Gabri", "Gabar", "Yazdi", Gabri, Yazdi, Dari, Zoroastrian, Behdinan dialect
Dialects & Varieties
Recent Resources
Endangered
80 percent certain, based on the evidence available
Speaker Number Trends
Speaker Number Trend 4
Less than half of the community speaks the language, and speaker numbers are decreasing at an accelerated pace.
4
Transmission
Transmission 3
Some adults in the community are speakers, but the language is not spoken by children.
3
Bibliography
Bibliography of Vitality:
Annahita Farudi and Maziar Toosarvandani. 2004. "The Dari Language Project." Online: http://linguistics.berkeley.edu/~dari/index.html.
Bibliography of Locations:
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.)
Bibliography of Context:
Annahita Farudi and Maziar Toosarvandani. 2004. "The Dari Language Project." Online: http://linguistics.berkeley.edu/~dari/index.html.