Dari

Dari ( Darī, pronoonced ) or Fārsī-ye Darī (, ) in historical terms refers tae the court leids o the Sassanids.Frye, R.N., "Darī", The Encylcopaedia of Islam, Brill Publications, CD version In contemporary usage, the term refers tae the version o Persie leid spoken in Afghanistan, an hence kent as Afghan Persian in some Western soorces. It is the term offeecially recognised an promotit bi the Afghan govrenment for the leid.Lazard, G. "Darī - The New Persian Literary Language ", in Encyclopædia Iranica, Online Edition 2006.

As defined in the Constitution o Afghanistan, Dari is ane o the twa offeecial leids o Afghanistan. Spoken bi at least hauf o the population as first leid, it an aa serves as the lingua franca in Afghanistan.Dari , UCLA Language Materials Project The Iranian an Afghan dialects o Persian are heichlie mutually intelligible. Differences are foond primarily in the vocabulary an phonology.

Dari, spoken in Afghanistan, shoud no be ramfeeselt wi Dari or Gabri o Iran, a leid o the Central Iranian sub-group,  spoken in some Zoroastrian communities.

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Category:Leids o Iran
Category:Leids o Pakistan
Category:Persie dialects o Afghanistan
Category:Sooth Asie