Talk:Languages of Afghanistan

message: Typo in page.  I cannot edit it, but the word over should be replaced with the word other. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Billyziege (talk • contribs) 14:53, 9 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Over to other. 

message: The article stated that Dari is a "dialect" of Persian.  Hazaragi is a dialect of Dari.  Is it a subdialect, or is it correct to refer to Dari as a form of Persian?  I've heard Afghan people use the words "Dari," "Farsi," and "Persian," interchangeably.  I'm under the impression Dari is not as distinct a dialect from Persian as Hazaragi is from Dari, but I may well be wrong?  Does anyone know?  Thanks Bruxism 12:54, 1 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Good point. Well yes those three words are synonyms and can be used interchangeably. We do have a distinct accent or dialect from the Farsi spoken in Iran or Tajikistan, but that's not what the term Dari refers. We would call our dialect by our province or city... such as "Kabuli dialect", or "Hazara dialect" (which is a very distinct dialect spoken in Hazarajat). -- Behnam (talk) 13:07, 25 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dialects 

message: That´s the reality. Pashtu is spoken at the most by some 35% of the population. And at least 5%-7% of Pashtuspeakers are not ethnic Pashtuns (Laghman, Kunar, Khost, Nangahar, Urgun, Farah) but counted as such because they live somewhere surrounded by Pashtuns. The government of Afghanistan which was always Pashtunic added always to their actual numbers 20%-30% more and claimed Pashtuns as dominant group and the original inhabitents became minorities. The languages of Afghanistan represent very well the ethnical expansion of the different nations living there. And when the Pashtuns make around 35% and are the single largest ethno-linguistic group within Afghanistan., what are non-Pashtuns than, specially the Tajiks? They claim at least the same numbers as Pashtuns do. Can someone explain the claimed assumptation with this fact?--188.107.12.104 (talk) 10:45, 31 December 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Whatever about reality I've put in the figures that the surveys cited actually have in them and which can be verified by clicking on the links and following them. Peoples own ideas about reality are not a reliable source for the encyclopaedia. Dmcq (talk) 08:30, 12 May 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  That´s the reality 

message: Pulled out discussion of official languages to a new section and rearranged the intro. Not totally happy with opening with "is a multilingual country," but the facts that the country has many languages of which two dominate (in terms of speakers and legal status, which are two separate, if often coinciding factors), seem most appropriate to lead the article.--A11n-research (talk) 08:42, 1 October 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Restructured intro 

message: The Afghanistan page lists the official languages as Pashto and Dari, and the Dari (Persian dialect) page states that "Dari is the official name for the Persian language in Afghanistan". So why is Dari continually being replaced by Persian on this page? And why is Hazaragi also being removed as a regional language? Aristophanes68 (talk) 15:15, 14 August 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: More: Just looked at user's contribs: User has been removing Dari from about a dozen pages; I have reverted them all and reported using ARV. Should I do anything else? Aristophanes68 (talk) 15:52, 16 August 2014 (UTC)

text: Thanks! Aristophanes68 (talk) 04:07, 21 August 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  More edit-warring on the languages 

message: Part of the edit-warring has been to replace one graph with another, which resulted in parts of one template being left in place at the top of the page. I restored that image, and I suggest the following: Unless there is serious reason why these two images cannot co-exist on the same page, let's just leave them both up. Thoughts? Aristophanes68 (talk) 17:02, 2 September 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Competing images in lead 

message: I'm not sure how to read that table. Are the commas being used as decimals, like in Europe? Or do the two numbers in the middle column suggest a range? Or are they two different estimates? And from which source, since there are four listed in the column header? Help! Aristophanes68 (talk) 22:27, 2 September 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Overview table is confusing 

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message: Pashto is the national language of Afghanistan 188.119.58.2 (talk) 06:08, 5 May 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pashto 

message: Here in Afghanistan 40million population
Ethnic groups
PASHTOON 22million
Tajik 9million
And 9millionothers like Uzbek Türkmen nazara and others and Pashto is the national language of Afghanistan 188.119.58.2 (talk) 06:12, 5 May 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pashto