Original sentence: Pashto and Persian (Dari) are both official languages of the country.Pashto is spoken widely in the south, east and south west, Uzbek and Turkmen are spoken in the north.Persian is spoken by at least half of the population and serves as a lingua franca for most Afghans
Edited sentence: Pashto is spoken in the south, east and south west, Uzbek and Turkmen are spoken widely in the north.Persian (Dari) and Pashto are official languages.Persian is spoken by more than one-half of the population as a first language and serves as a lingua franca for most Afghans.Thus, in recent years, the term Afghanistani has been suggested for the citizens of Afghanistan in contrast to (ethnic) Afghans who would be the Pashtuns