Zoroastrian Dari (Persian: دری زرتشتی or گویش بهدینان‎‎ lit. BEHDĪNĀN DIALECT) is a Northwestern Iranian ethnolect spoken as a first language by an estimated 8,000 to 15,000 Zoroastrians in and around the cities of Yazd and Kerman in central Iran. The ethnolect is often overlooked by linguists because the region is predominantly Muslim and because Dari is primarily spoken (rarely written).Dari is also known as Behdināni or pejoratively as Gabri (sometimes Gavrŭni or Gabrōni).