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Dari Persian is most closely related to Tajiki Persian as spoken in Tajikistan and the two share many phonological and lexical similarities. Apart from a few basics of vocabulary, there is little difference between formal written Persian of Afghanistan and Iran; the languages are mutually intelligible. [13]
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 ]
In Dari and Tajik /a/ is the most common vowel and at the end of a word may be pronounced as /æ/. [a] Unlike Iranian Persian, Dari has 5 long vowels /ɑː/, /eː/, /iː/, /oː/, and /uː/. The Dari vowel /ɑː/ and the Iranian vowel /ɒː/ are, respectively, the unrounded and rounded versions of the same vowel. ('roundedness' refers to the ...
Persian: Iranian Persian (natively simply known as Persian), Dari and Tajik – Persian and Dari are written in Perso-Arabic script, ...
This is to raise the awareness that the Persian/Dari short "a" vowel is not ae as in "bat" but an open front vowel like "a" in "rather" (IPA "a"). Although in his/her undoing of my correction for this vowel Mr Kebab arguest that: "rv <æ> is the traditional transcription and many scholars use it for the open front vowel anyway (see e.g. Roca ...
Persian is a member of the Iranian branch of the Indo-European languages. There are three closely-related varieties of Persian: Persian proper, or Farsi, (فارسی) is spoken in Iran. Dari, or Afghani Persian, (دری) is spoken in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Tajik (Тоҷикӣ / Tojikī / تاجیکی) is spoken in Tajikistan and the former USSR.
Farsi is spoken by more than 100 million people in Iran and nearby countries, while Mandarin, with more than 1 billion speakers, is the majority language in China.
Genuine Old Persian is best attested in one of the three languages of the Behistun inscription, composed c. 520 BCE, and which is the last inscription (and only inscription of significant length) in which Old Persian is still grammatically correct. Later inscriptions are comparatively brief, and typically simply copies of words and phrases from ...