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second phase · Language · prs · Iranian, Southwestern

Derî

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

Derî

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

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On the mapWhere spokenrecordedCourses1
Niha
Akademî126 kurs, hîn yek jî ji bo tomarkirinê ne vekirî yeWelatîbûn3 kampanya, 5 bernameMîras116 rojên bibîranînê, 40 tomarên kronolojiyêNûçe88 çavkaniyên pejirandî, hîn tu bûyerên piştrastkirî tune neŞaxdi avabûnê de. Hîn yek jî nehatiye naskirin
ScriptArabright to leftsecond phase
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Tomar

prs
دریDari · Arab
Kod
prs
Malbat
Iranian, Southwestern
Where
Afghanistan; Afghan communities in Iran and abroad
Phase
second phase
Vegirtin
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
Vekirî
Courses from the Academy catalogue; a course opens for enrolment one by one after review.
Akademî

Writing

1 script

Its own names

دریdarī
right to left

Alfabe

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

Çavkanî

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

Linguistics

family, dialects, sounds and standing
Malbat
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
Kod
ISO 639-3 prs · macrolanguage fas · Glottolog dari1249
Dialects
Dari: Nuclear Dari, Parsiwan (2 listed in all)
Standing
Dari: not endangered (1 (National)) çavkaniya duyemîn
Eastern Farsic
piştrastkirî
Piştrast bike, çavkaniyekê zêde bike an ragihîne
Alîkariya kontrolkirina vê nirxê bike

Paşê çi dibe. Parêzvanek nota te dixwîne û çavkaniyê kontrol dike. Rûpel tenê piştî wê diguhere. Navê te nayê gotin.

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.
piştrastkirî

Speakers

nenas
Pîvan
speakers
Sal
nehatiye tomarkirin
Çavkanî
Hîn çavkanî tune. Em nenas nîşan didin, ne texmînek.
Rewş
nenas
Piştrast bike, çavkaniyekê zêde bike an ragihîne
Alîkariya kontrolkirina vê nirxê bike

Paşê çi dibe. Parêzvanek nota te dixwîne û çavkaniyê kontrol dike. Rûpel tenê piştî wê diguhere. Navê te nayê gotin.

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.

Fêr bibe

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.
Hemû kurs

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.
  • nenasHîn çavkanî tune. Em nenas nîşan didin, ne texmînek.
Parêzvanek berî her guhertinê çavkaniyê kontrol dike. Navê te nayê gotin.
Format
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