Achomi people, known by their self-designated pseudonym as Khodmooni, commonly known as Laris, Larestanis ,are a Persian and Iranic group said to be descended mainly of Utians, and/or of a tribe of Persians known as "Ira" according to Sasanian sources, who primarily inhabited southern Iran in a region historically known as Irahistan, some of them migrated to Shiraz, and the Arab countries in the Persian Gulf region. They speak the Achomi language which has reported eight dialects and it is unintelligible with New Persian/Farsi,. They are predominantly Sunni Muslims, with a Shia minority.