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Dari (/ ˈ d ɑː r i, ˈ d æ-/; endonym: دری [d̪ɐˈɾiː]), Dari Persian (فارسی دری, Fārsī-yi Darī, [fʌːɾˈsiːjɪ d̪ɐˈɾiː] or Fārsī-ye Darī, [fʌːɾˈsiːjɛ d̪ɐˈɾiː]), or Eastern Persian is the variety of the Persian language spoken in Afghanistan.
Persian is a pluricentric language predominantly spoken and used officially within Iran, Afghanistan, and Tajikistan in three mutually intelligible standard varieties, respectively Iranian Persian (officially known as Persian), [11] [12] [13] Dari Persian (officially known as Dari since 1964), [14] and Tajiki Persian (officially known as Tajik ...
Tajiks (Persian: تاجيک، تاجک, romanized: Tājīk, Tājek; Tajik: Тоҷик, romanized: Tojik) is the name of various Persian-speaking [16] Eastern Iranian groups of people native to Central Asia, living primarily in Afghanistan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan.
Dari, also known as Dari Persian, is one of the two official languages of Afghanistan. The Hazaras are one of the most persecuted groups in Afghanistan. [ 25 ] More than half of the Hazara population was massacred by the Emirate of Afghanistan between 1888 and 1893 , [ 26 ] and they have faced persecution at various times over the past decades ...
The Persian or Dari language functions as the nation's lingua franca and is the native tongue of several of Afghanistan's ethnic groups including the Tajiks, Hazaras, and Aimaqs. [13] Pashto is the native tongue of the Pashtuns, the dominant ethnic group in Afghanistan. [14]
"New Persian" is the name given to the final stage of development of Persian language. The term Persian is an English derivation of Latin Persiānus, the adjectival form of Persia, itself deriving from Greek Persís (Περσίς), [12] a Hellenized form of Old Persian Pārsa (𐎱𐎠𐎼𐎿), [13] which means "Persia" (a region in southwestern Iran corresponding to modern-day Fars province).
Zoroastrian Dari (Persian: دری زرتشتی or گویش بهدینان literally Behdīnān dialect) is a Persian dialect and a Northwestern Iranian [1] ethnolect. Zoroastrian Dari used to be spoken by almost a million people in central Iran, up until the 1880s. [ 2 ]
Dari and Tajik, on the other hand, preserve the earlier forms. For instance, the word Nowruz (نوروز in Perso-Arabic, Наврӯз in Tajik) is realized as /nowruːz/ in Iran's Standard Persian and /nawroːz/ in Standard Dari, and نخیر meaning "no" is /naχejr/ in Iran's Standard Persian and /naχajr/ in Standard Dari.