Afghanistan

Spotlight on Dari
12
May

Spotlight on Dari

By admin commentsDari, endangered languages, UNESCO, see and hear, Dari speakers, Eid al-Fitr, Ramadan, Afghanistan, Iran, Persian, dialects, Goldilocks, books for kids, bilingual, picture books

Dari might seem like an unlikely language to make it onto UNESCO’s list of Endangered Languages; about half of Afghanistan’s population understand Dari, and nearly a third speak it, meaning there are an estimated 8-9 million speakers of this Indo-Iranian language, sister to Persian and Farsi.

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