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Encyclopedia > Dari language

The term Dari derives from Fârsi-e Darbâri which means 'Persian of the (royal) courts'. It developed at the royal courts of the Samanids (980 AD) in Central Asia and became the major language of Persia. Today, the term is used to refer to three different themes:


1. Dari is the local name used for the Persian language in Afghanistan.


2. Dari (also called Gabri or Yazdi) is the name used by Zoroastrians to refer to the Northwestern Iranian language they speak.


3. Dari is also the name of the Persian language in classical Persian poetry.

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Dari (Zoroastrian) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (1350 words)
While Dari is spoken in a geographical area that is predominately Muslim, it is the proprietary language of the area’s Zoroastrians, followers of the pre-Islamic religion of Iran.
The language that originally bore the name Dari was the official spoken language of the Sasanian court and bureaucracy, a language that approximated the official written language, Pahlavi (Middle Persian).
Languages like Dari are transitioning from a state of language maintenance, in which a language is being sustained in the face of pressure from a dominant culture, to language death, a state in which the language is no longer spoken.
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