12 Facts About Dari language

The term "Dari language" is officially used for the characteristic spoken Persian of Afghanistan, but is best restricted to formal spoken registers.

Also, like Iranian Persian and Tajiki Persian, Dari Persian is a continuation of Middle Persian, the official religious and literary language of the Sassanian Empire, itself a continuation of Old Persian, the language of the Achaemenids.

The majority of scholars believe that Dari refers to the Persian word dar or darbar, meaning "court", as it was the formal language of the Sassanids.

Dari language spoken in Afghanistan is not to be confused with the language of Iran called Dari or Gabri, which is a language of the Central Iranian subgroup spoken in some Zoroastrian communities.

Dari language comes from Middle Persian which was spoken during the rule of the Sassanid dynasty.

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Dari language Persian spread around the Oxus River region, Afghanistan, and Khorasan after the Arab conquests and during Islamic-Arab rule.

Dari dominates the northern, western, and central areas of Afghanistan, and is the common language spoken in cities such as Mazar-i-Sharif, Herat, Fayzabad, Panjshir, Bamiyan, and the Afghan capital of Kabul where all ethnic groups are settled.

Dari language-speaking communities exist in southwestern and eastern Pashtun-dominated areas such as in the cities of Ghazni, Farah, Zaranj, Lashkar Gah, Kandahar, and Gardez.

The Dari language has a rich and colorful tradition of proverbs that deeply reflect Afghan culture and relationships, as demonstrated by US Navy Captain Edward Zellem in his bilingual books on Afghan Dari proverbs collected in Afghanistan.

Phonology of Dari language as spoken in Kabul, compared to Classical Persian, is overall more conservative than the standard accent of Iran.

Dialects of Dari language spoken in Northern, Central, and Eastern Afghanistan, for example in Kabul, Mazar, and Badakhshan, have distinct features compared to Iranian Persian.

However, the dialect of Dari language spoken in Western Afghanistan stands in between the Afghan and Iranian Persian.