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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prs

دریDari · 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 catalogue

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

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Writing

1 script

Its own names

دریdarī

right to left

Scripts

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

barlandy

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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
Kodlar: ISO 639-3 prs · macrolanguage fas · Glottolog dari1249
Dialects: Dari: Nuclear Dari, Parsiwan (2 listed in all)
Standing: Dari: not endangered (1 (National)) ikinji derejeli

Eastern Farsic

barlandy

Barla, çeşme goş ýa-da habar ber

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.

barlandy

Speakers

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Ölçeg: speakers
Ýyl: not recorded
Çeşme: No source yet. We show unknown, not a guess.
Ýagdaý: näbelli

Barla, çeşme goş ýa-da habar ber

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Öwren

1 course

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

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