Pashto and Dari are the official languages of Afghanistan; with Pashto being declared Afghanistan’s national language at the start of Zahir Shah's reign.

Dari translation is sometimes known as Afghan Persian or Dari Persian, and it’s a variety of Persian that’s spoken in Afghanistan. Along with Pashto, it’s Afghanistan’s second official language. Around 25 to 50% of Afghans speak Dari as their native language: Dari is also the bridging language throughout Afghanistan and is mutually intelligible with Iranian Persian. Other Asian languages such as Punjabi, Bengali, and Hindustani were influenced by Dari at the time of the Persocentric Mughal Empire. It was Dari that was used as the cultural, administrative and official language of the empire and it was also used as a bridging language throughout the Indian subcontinent, long after the collapse of the empire.

Uzbek

Uzbek is the official language of Uzbekistan: it’s a Turkic language native to Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Afghanistan, China, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan and Russia. Because other languages are spoken where it’s a native language, Uzbek has been greatly influenced by Persian, Russian and Arabic. Around 10% of Afghanistan’s population speak Uzbek as their native language. There are three different writing systems for this language – Cyrillic, Latin and Arabic. Even though Latin is the official writing system, Cyrillic is the most widespread; and it’s quite common to see two or three writing systems used in the same publication.

Turkmen

Turkmen is the official language of Turkmenistan, and this is also a Turkic language. Around 3% of Afghanistan’s population speak Turkmen, with most living in the north-western region of the country. Turkmen is part of a group of languages that have vowel harmony and is agglutinative – this means that new words are formed simply by adding suffixes to existing words.

A Closer Look at These Languages

Pashto and Dari are the official languages of Afghanistan; with Pashto being declared Afghanistan’s national language at the start of Zahir Shah's reign. However, it’s Dari that’s always been used for both government and business transactions. Both of these languages belong to the Indo-European group of languages. Besides the languages previously mentioned, there are also many other languages spoken in Afghanistan, such as Pashai, Baluchi, Nuristani, and so on. And of course bilingualism is very common.

Both Dari and Pashto are written primarily with the Arabic alphabet, but with modifications. There was a massive rise in Pashto literature in the 17th century, due to poets such as Khushal Khan Khattak, who today is known as the National Poet of Afghanistan. Rahman Baba was another noteworthy Pashto poet, and of course Ahmad Shah Abdali, who was the founder of the modern Afghan nation.

Some of the world’s greatest poems were written in Dari; and of course poems written in Dari by Jalaluddin Rumi have been translated into numerous other languages – they’re also widely read in the West.

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