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Between sources the amount of L1 speakers of Pashto and Dari vary considerably. With Encyclopedia Britannica estimating that roughly 1/2 of the population of Afghanistan speaks Dari natively, and "more than" 2/5 of Afghanistan speaking Pashto natively. While estimating a lower amount of native Pashto speakers then other sources, Britannica ...
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In Afghanistan, Dari (Afghan Persian), with the well-established Persian script, is the literary language of the nation. Pashto language too, with its own alphabet, derived from Persian, but with unique features and conventions, is the co-official language of Afghanistan. Thus, the Shughni orthography being developed by literaturists in ...
Dari (/ ˈ d ɑː r i, ˈ d æ-/; endonym: دری [d̪ɐˈɾiː]), Dari Persian (فارسی دری, Fārsī-yi Darī, [fʌːɾˈsiːjɪ d̪ɐˈɾiː] or Fārsī-ye Darī, [fʌːɾˈsiːjɛ d̪ɐˈɾiː]), or Eastern Persian is the variety of the Persian language spoken in Afghanistan.
Pashto employs the Pashto alphabet, a modified form of the Perso-Arabic alphabet or Arabic script. [106] In the 16th century, Bayazid Pir Roshan introduced 13 new letters to the Pashto alphabet. The alphabet was further modified over the years. The Pashto alphabet consists of 45 to 46 letters [107] and 4 diacritic marks. Latin Pashto is also used.
The ethnonym Afghan (Dari Persian/Pashto: افغان) has been used historically to refer to the Pashtuns. [1] Since the second half of the twentieth century, the term "Afghan" evolved into a demonym for all residents of Afghanistan, including those outside of the Pashtun ethnicity. [1] [2]
Pashayi or Pashai (Persian: زبان پشه ای; Pashto: پشه اې ژبه) is a group of Indo-Aryan languages spoken by the Pashai people in parts of Kapisa, Laghman, Nangarhar, Nuristan, Kunar and Kabul (Surobi District) provinces in Northeastern Afghanistan. [2] The Pashayi languages had no known written form prior to 2003. [3]
Southwestern, of which Persian (including the Dari and Tajik dialects) and Luri are the dominant members; Northwestern, of which the Kurdish languages are the dominant members. The Eastern Iranian languages, subdivided into: Southeastern, of which Pashto is the dominant member;