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Also known as Eastern Farsi, Eastern Persian, Afghan Persian, Afghan Farsi, Dari language, fa-AF, fa_AF, fa-af

Dari, also known as Farsi Dari, Dari Persian, Eastern Persian, or Afghan Persian, is the variety of the Persian language spoken in Afghanistan. Dari is the Afghan government's official term for the Persian language; it is known as Afghan Persian or Eastern Persian in many Western sources. The decision to rename the local variety of Persian in 1964 was more political than linguistic to support an Afghan state narrative. Dari Persian is most closely related to Tajiki Persian as spoken in Tajikistan and the two share many phonological and lexical similarities. Apart from a few basics of vocabular

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Dari is the variety of Persian language spoken in Afghanistan and recognized as the official term by the Afghan government, though it's also called Afghan Persian or Eastern Persian in Western sources. The language is closely related to Tajiki Persian spoken in Tajikistan, and the official adoption of the name "Dari" in 1964 was primarily a political decision designed to support Afghan national identity rather than a reflection of linguistic differences.

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Language.ref
<ref name="e28
Language.name
Dari
Language.altname
Afghan Persian, Eastern Persian
Language.image
The word Dari in Nastaliq.svg
Language.imagescale
0.45
Language.imagecaption
in Perso-Arabic script(Nastaʿlīq style)
Language.states
Afghanistan
Language.speakers
L1: million
Language.date
2024
Language.speakers2
L2: million (2023)<ref name="e28
Language.speakers_label
Speakers
Language.familycolor
Indo-European
Language.fam2
Indo-Iranian
Language.fam3
Iranian
Language.fam4
Western Iranian
Language.fam5
Southwestern Iranian
Language.fam6
Persian
Language.script
Persian alphabet

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
modern language
Subclass of
Persian
Image
Dari.png
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topic's main category
Category:Dari language
writing system
Arabic alphabet
linguistic typology
subject–object–verb
number of speakers, writers, or signers
9600000
native label
دری‎
Wikimedia language code
fa-af
Commons category
Dari language
different from
New Persian
indigenous to
Afghanistan
dialect of
Persian
category for films in this language
Category:Dari-language films
short name
дарӣ
entry in abbreviations table
Afgh.Prs.
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