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Sign in to saveAlso 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
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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Key facts
- 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
- Country
- Afghanistan
- 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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