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Farsi, Eastern

A language of Afghanistan

ISO 639-3: prs
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Population	5,600,000 in Afghanistan (1996). Population total all countries: 7,600,000.
Region	Provinces of Herat, Hazarajat, Balkh, Ghor, Ghazni, Budaksham, Panjsher; Galcha-Pamir Mountains; Kabul regions. Dari in Khorasan Province (Iran). Also in Iran, Pakistan.
Language map	Afghanistan, reference number 2
Alternate names	Dari, Parsi, Persian
Dialects	Dari (Afghan Farsi, Herati, Tajiki, Kaboli, Kabuli, Khorasani), Parsiwan. Radio Afghanistan broadcasts promote a standardized pronunciation of the literary language based on the old dictional tradition of the country, with archaic phonetic characteristics. Phonological and lexical differences between Iran and Afghanistan cause little difficulty in comprehension. Most Afghan dialects are more similar to literary Persian than Iranian dialects are.
Classification	Indo-European, Indo-Iranian, Iranian, Western, Southwestern, Persian A member of macrolanguage Persian [fas] (Iran).
Language use	National language.
Language development	Taught in schools. Radio programs. NT: 1982–1985.
Writing system	Arabic script.
Comments	Muslim (Sunni and Shi’a).

Also spoken in:

Pakistan

Language name	Farsi, Eastern
Population	1,000,000 in Pakistan. 1,400 in Madaglasht, and many refugees (1992 SIL).
Region	Southeast Chitral, Shishi Koh Valley, Madaglasht village; Peshawar, Rawalpindi, Lahore, Karachi, other large cities.
Alternate names	Badakhshi, Dari, Madaglashti, Tajik
Comments	Madaglasht community came from Badakhshan, Afghanistan 200 years ago. Other communities have been in Pakistan many generations. Muslim.

Entries from the SIL Bibliography about this language:

Academic Publications

DECKER, Kendall D., author. 1992. Languages of Chitral.  

WILLIAMSON, Paul, author. 2009. "Phonological variations in Kabul Persian: an optimality theory analysis."  

Vernacular Publications

Yak Taswir Dar Du Oina. 2010.