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second phase · Language · prs · Iranian, Southwestern

دەری

دری · Arab script, written right to left. Spoken in Afghanistan; Afghan communities in Iran and abroad.

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prs · Arab · right to left · second phase

Language · prs · Iranian, Southwestern · second phase

دەری

دری · Arab script, written right to left. Spoken in Afghanistan; Afghan communities in Iran and abroad.

See the courses

On the mapWhere spokenrecordedCourses1
ئێستا
Academy126 courses, none open for enrolment yetCivic3 campaigns, 5 programmesHeritage116 days to keep, 40 chronology entriesNews88 approved sources, no confirmed events yetChaptersforming. None is recognised yet
ScriptArabright to leftsecond phase
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تۆمار

prs
دریDari · Arab
کۆد
prs
خێزان
Iranian, Southwestern
Where
Afghanistan; Afghan communities in Iran and abroad
Phase
second phase
چوارچێوە
not yet measured
Codes are BCP 47 language and script subtags.

Courses that teach it

1 in the catalogue
Dari and Tajik bridgesIDCDC-PER-07 · Planned, outline not written yet
کراوە
Courses from the Academy catalogue; a course opens for enrolment one by one after review.
ئەکادیمیا

Writing

1 script

Its own names

دریdarī
right to left

ئەلفوبێکان

Arab
Persian alphabetا ب پ ت ث ج چ ح
32 letters

From one script to another

Persian to Latin, ALA-LC (2012)Letter by letter. Short vowels are not written in Persian, so a full romanisation needs them supplied from a dictionary. و and ی are read as consonants at the start of a word or beside a vowel letter, otherwise as long vowels.
Names in the language's own writing; each sample keeps its direction.
All scripts

سەرچاوەکان

1 resource
Glottolog: Darireference · Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology · checked 2026-10-23
پشتڕاستکراوە
Each resource shows whether its link was checked. A resource without a checked link is labelled to verify.

Linguistics

family, dialects, sounds and standing
خێزان
Indo-European, then Classical Indo-European, then Indo-Iranian, then Iranian-Nuristani, then Iranian, then Southwestern Iranian, then Middle-Modern Persian, then Modern Southwestern Iranian, then Farsic-Caucasian Tat, then Farsic, then Eastern Farsic
کۆدەکان
ISO 639-3 prs · macrolanguage fas · Glottolog dari1249
Dialects
Dari: Nuclear Dari, Parsiwan (2 listed in all)
Standing
Dari: not endangered (1 (National)) لاوەکی
Eastern Farsic
پشتڕاستکراوە
پشتڕاستکردنەوە، زیادکردنی سەرچاوە یان ڕاپۆرت
یارمەتی پشکنینی ئەم بەهایە بدە

دواتر چی ڕوودەدات. پارێزەرێک تێبینییەکەت دەخوێنێتەوە و سەرچاوەکە دەپشکنێت. پەڕەکە تەنها دوای ئەوە دەگۆڕێت. ناوت نایەت.

Dari and Persian

Dari is the name of Persian in Afghanistan. Many speakers and linguists treat it as a standard of one Persian language. Glottolog and ISO 639-3 list it as a separate language (prs).

to verify · Hammarström, Forkel, Haspelmath and Bank. Glottolog 5.3. Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.; Windfuhr (ed.). The Iranian Languages. Routledge.

In law

The 2004 Constitution of Afghanistan (Article 16) names Pashto and Dari as the official languages of the state.Constitute Project. Constitutions of the world, English translations.
پشتڕاستکراوە

Speakers

نەزانراو
پێوان
speakers
ساڵ
تۆمار نەکراوە
سەرچاوە
هێشتا هیچ سەرچاوەیەک نییە. ئێمە نەزانراو نیشان دەدەین، نەک گومان.
دۆخ
نەزانراو
پشتڕاستکردنەوە، زیادکردنی سەرچاوە یان ڕاپۆرت
یارمەتی پشکنینی ئەم بەهایە بدە

دواتر چی ڕوودەدات. پارێزەرێک تێبینییەکەت دەخوێنێتەوە و سەرچاوەکە دەپشکنێت. پەڕەکە تەنها دوای ئەوە دەگۆڕێت. ناوت نایەت.

No speaker figure has been verified for this platform yet. It stays unknown until a census or survey figure is checked with its measure, year and source.

Classification and standing from the sources named on each line. Where views differ, each view is shown with its sources.

فێربە

1 course
1
Dari and Tajik bridgesIDCDC-PER-07 · Planned, outline not written yet
A course opens after its outline is reviewed. Until then it is listed with its state.
هەموو خولەکان

Key

labels and checks
  • verifiedA figure or claim read at its primary source by a steward or checkers from at least two communities.
  • secondaryA figure or claim cited through a reviewed work rather than read at its primary source.
  • to verifyA figure or claim whose source has not yet been read; it stays in the verification queue.
  • نەزانراوهێشتا هیچ سەرچاوەیەک نییە. ئێمە نەزانراو نیشان دەدەین، نەک گومان.
پارێزەرێک پێش هەر گۆڕانێک سەرچاوەکە دەپشکنێت. ناوت نایەت.
شێوەکان
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