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The official languages of the country are Dari and Pashto, as established by the 1964 Constitution of Afghanistan. Dari is the most widely spoken language of Afghanistan's official languages and acts as a lingua franca for the country.
Apr 25, 2017 · Afghanistan has two official languages, Dari and Pashto, which are also the most widely spoken languages in the country. It also has five regional languages and several minor languages, reflecting its ethnic, religious and linguistic diversity.
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The people of Afghanistan form a complex mosaic of ethnic and linguistic groups. Pashto and Persian ( Dari ), both Indo-European languages, are the official languages of the country. More than two-fifths of the population speak Pashto, the language of the Pashtuns, while about half speak some dialect of Persian.
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Dari is the official language for 35 million Afghans in Afghanistan [14] and it serves as the lingua franca for interethnic communications in Afghanistan. [citation needed] As defined in the 2004 Constitution of Afghanistan, Dari (Farsi) is one of the two official languages of Afghanistan; the other is Pashto. [15] .
Afghanistan is a linguistically diverse nation, with upwards of 40 distinct languages. However, Dari and Pashto are two of the most prominent languages in the country, and have shared official status under various governments of Afghanistan.
Pashto (/ ˈ p ʌ ʃ t oʊ / PUH-shto, / ˈ p æ ʃ t oʊ / PASH-toe; پښتو, Pəx̌tó, [pəʂˈto, pʊxˈto, pəʃˈto, pəçˈto]) is an Eastern Iranian language in the Indo-European language family, natively spoken in northwestern Pakistan, southern and eastern Afghanistan, and some isolated pockets of far eastern Iran near the Afghan border.
Dari is a variety of Persian spoken by about 12.5 million people in Afghanistan and Pakistan. It is written with a version of the Perso-Arabic script and is mutually intelligible with Persian of Iran.
