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second phase · Language · prs · Iranian, Southwestern

דרי

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

דרי

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

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אדיו
אקדמיה126 קורסים, הלא היצ' חד קא הרשמה לא פתיחאאזרחי3 קמפיינים, 5 תכניותירותא116 יומי קא דוכראנא, 40 רישומי דכרונולוגיהכברי88 מקורות מאושרים, הלא אירועים מאושרים לֵתסניפיםגו בנאיא. הלא היצ' חד מוכר לֵוֵה
ScriptArabright to leftsecond phase
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Record

prs
دریDari · Arab
Code
prs
Family
Iranian, Southwestern
Where
Afghanistan; Afghan communities in Iran and abroad
Phase
second phase
כיסוי
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
פתח
Courses from the Academy catalogue; a course opens for enrolment one by one after review.
אקדמיה

Writing

1 script

Its own names

دریdarī
right to left

כתבים

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

Resources

1 resource
Glottolog: Darireference · Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology · checked 2026-10-23
מאומת
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Linguistics

family, dialects, sounds and standing
Family
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
Codes
ISO 639-3 prs · macrolanguage fas · Glottolog dari1249
Dialects
Dari: Nuclear Dari, Parsiwan (2 listed in all)
Standing
Dari: not endangered (1 (National)) משני
Eastern Farsic
מאומת
בדיקה עוד, מקורא זיד עוד יאן דווח עוד
קא בדיקה דאאיא ערך עוד יארמתי

בתרה מא הויא. נטורא הערה דידוך קרי ומקורא בדק. דפא בס בתר אאיא משתניא. שמוך לא מתאמר.

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.
מאומת

Speakers

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מידה
speakers
שאתא
לא רשימא
מקור
הלא מקורא לֵת. לא ידיעא מחזך, ניחוש לֵוֵה.
מצב
לא ידיעא
בדיקה עוד, מקורא זיד עוד יאן דווח עוד
קא בדיקה דאאיא ערך עוד יארמתי

בתרה מא הויא. נטורא הערה דידוך קרי ומקורא בדק. דפא בס בתר אאיא משתניא. שמוך לא מתאמר.

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.

ילף

1 course
1
Dari and Tajik bridgesIDCDC-PER-07 · Planned, outline not written yet
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