Dari

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Dari is a variety of the Persian language primarily spoken in Afghanistan and used in media, education, and government there.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Dari canonical 112

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (48)

Predicate Object
instanceOf language
variety of the Persian language
alternativeName Afghan Persian
linked to: Persian language

Dari Persian
linked to: Persian language

Fārsī-ye Darī
linked to: Persian language
closelyRelatedTo Iranian Persian
linked to: Persian language

Tajik
linked to: Tajiks
coOfficialWith Pashto
linked to: Pashto language
hasLexicalInfluenceFrom Arabic
Pashto
linked to: Pashto language

Turkic languages
hasPhonologicalFeature retention of certain classical Persian vowels
historicalAncestor Classical Persian
Middle Persian
ISO639-1Code fa
ISO639-3Code prs
languageFamily Indo-European languages
Indo-Iranian languages
Iranian languages
Southwestern Iranian languages
Western Iranian languages
officialStatus official language of Afghanistan
region Central Afghanistan
Northern Afghanistan
Western Afghanistan
regulatingBody Academy of Sciences of Afghanistan
spokenBy Aimaqs
Hazaras
Tajiks of Afghanistan
linked to: Tajiks

many urban Pashtuns
spokenIn Afghanistan
standardBasedOn Kabul dialect
standardFormOf Persian in Afghanistan
subclassOf Persian language
usedAs lingua franca in Afghanistan
usedFor education at secondary level in Afghanistan
higher education in Afghanistan
literature in Afghanistan
usedIn Afghan administration
Afghan education system
Afghan government
Afghan judiciary
Afghan media
Afghan print media
Afghan radio broadcasting
Afghan television broadcasting
writingDirection right-to-left
writingSystem Perso-Arabic script

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (112)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Pakhto closelyRelatedTo Dari
Afghan languageUsed Dari
Afghan nationalLanguage Dari
Dzhidi closelyRelatedTo Dari
Jalalabad languageSpoken Dari
subject linked to: Jalalabad, Afghanistan
Hazarajat language Dari
Afghan National Police languageUsed Dari
subject linked to: ANP
Afghan Public Protection Force languageOfOperation Dari
Afghan National Army languageUsed Dari
subject linked to: ANA
Afghan Interim Authority hasLanguage Dari