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Dari speakers


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    • Afghan Persian speakers
    • Dari Persian speakers
    • Eastern Farsi speakers
    • Eastern Persian speakers
    • Farsi, Eastern, speakers
    • Persian, Afghan, speakers
    • Persian, Dari, speakers
    • Persian, Eastern, speakers
    • Speakers of Afghan Persian
    • Speakers of Dari
    • Speakers of Eastern Farsi
    • Speakers of Eastern Persian

  • Sources

    • found: Work cat.: Bulkin, Carleton. Dari practical dictionary, 2012:t.p. (Dari-English English-Dari) p. xii (bidirectional Dari-English dictionary using Dari script) (OCoLC)858731557
    • found: Ethnologue, via WWW, May 4, 2022(Dari. A language of Afghanistan. Alternate Names: Afghan Persian, Eastern Farsi, Parsi, Persian. Autonym: Farsi. Mutually intelligible with Iranian Persian and Tajiki)
    • found: Britannica online, May 4, 2022(Dari language, member of the Iranian branch of the Indo-Iranian family of languages and, along with Pashto, one of the two official languages of Afghanistan. Dari is the Afghan dialect of Farsi (Persian). It is written in a modified Arabic alphabet, and it has many Arabic and Persian loanwords)
    • found: Wikipedia, May 4, 2022(Dari, or Dari Persian, is a political term used for the various dialects of the Persian language spoken in Afghanistan and by two and a half million people in Pakistan and Iran. Dari is the term officially recognised and promoted since 1964 by the Afghan government for the Persian language, hence it is known as Afghan Persian or Eastern Persian in many Western sources)
    • found: LCSH, May 4, 2022(Dari language. UF Kabuli language; Kabuli-Persian language. BT Iranian languages)

  • History Notes

    • [Established June 2022.]

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  • Change Notes

    • 2022-05-04: new
    • 2023-06-20: revised

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