second phase · Language · prs · Iranian, Southwestern
Dari
دری · Arab script, written right to left. Spoken in Afghanistan; Afghan communities in Iran and abroad.
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Language · prs · Iranian, Southwestern · second phase
Dari
دری · Arab script, written right to left. Spoken in Afghanistan; Afghan communities in Iran and abroad.
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ScriptArabright to leftsecond phase
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prsدریDari · Arab
- Code
- prs
- Family
- Iranian, Southwestern
- Where
- Afghanistan; Afghan communities in Iran and abroad
- Phase
- second phase
- Coverage
- not yet measured
Codes are BCP 47 language and script subtags.
Courses that teach it
1 in the catalogueDari and Tajik bridgesIDCDC-PER-07 · Open for enrolment on study.iranians.global
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Writing
1 scriptIts own names
دریdarī
right to leftScripts
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.
Resources
1 resourceGlottolog: Darireference · Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology · checked 2026-10-23
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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)) secondary
Eastern Farsic
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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.
verifiedSpeakers
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- speakers
- Year
- not recorded
- Source
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- Status
- unknown
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1 course1
Dari and Tajik bridgesIDCDC-PER-07 · Open for enrolment on study.iranians.global
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