page_title: Afghan literature
section_title: Proverbs
hierarchical_section_title: Afghan literature / Proverbs
caption_attribution_description: English: A collection of books containing collections of Afghan proverbs in three languages of Afghanistan. The bottom book, without the title visible, is Zellem's children's version of the Dari collection.
context_page_description: Afghan literature or Literature of Afghanistan refers to the literature produced on the Central and South Asia until Anglo-Afghan Treaty of 1919, Second Anglo-Afghan War, Emirate of Afghanistan and in the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan thereafter. The Islamic Republic of Afghanistan has two officially recognized languages such as Dari, Pashto, and four regional languages such as Uzbek, Turkmen, Balochi, and Pashayi, and while it's a multilingual country, these languages are generally used as oral compositions and written texts by the Afghan writers and in Afghan curriculum. It's literature is highly influenced by Persian and Arabic literature.
  The history of the broader Afghan literature spans between ancient as well as modern Afghanistan. The earliest works of literature were orally transmitted. It's writing system is historically associated with Arabic script. The oldest extant records of the literature are believed derivative of the Nabataean variation of the Aramaic alphabet, dating to the 5th and 6th centuries BCE, century. However, it primarily originated in the early Islamic centuries.
context_section_description: Afghan proverbs are generally used in a simple, concrete, and traditional saying. It usually express a perceived truth based on common sense or experience. Some proverbs are categorised by the events occurred in real life or based on imagination facts that temporarily create objects, peoples and ideas without any immediate input of the senses. 
  Afghan proverbs primarily exist in two officially recognized languages. The unrecognized or anonymous proverbs exist in more than two languages because people borrow them from foreign or regional languages similar to theirs.
caption: A collection of books containing Afghan proverbs.
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