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Afghanistan’s Persian Linguistic Identity

14th November, 2017 · admin

afghanistanThe Diplomat: Afghanistan has recently been the scene of a debate on what the real name of one of its official languages is. Afghanistan has two official languages, Pashto and Dari. However, most Dari speakers natively call their language Farsi or Persian. According to Radio Free Europe, the dispute over the name of the language was “reignited after the BBC changed the name of one of its local-language Facebook pages to BBC Dari, prompting a backlash from many Afghan Persian speakers who despise the word officially used to describe their language.” Click here to read more (external link).

Posted in Ethnic Issues, History, Society | Tags: Dari, Farsi, Language, Pashtunization, Pashtuns, Persian |
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