GENERAL KNOWLEDGE

Detailed explanation-1: -Dari and Pashto are the official and most widely spoken languages, by 77% and 48% of the population respectively. Dari, or Farsi, is the official name of the variety of Persian spoken in the country, and is widely used as a lingua franca.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Taliban are using only Pashtu language in their official communications. According to the Constitution of Afghanistan, Dari and Pashtu are the two official languages among other languages in the country.

Detailed explanation-3: -Dari language, member of the Iranian branch of the Indo-Iranian family of languages and, along with Pashto, one of the two official languages of Afghanistan. Dari is the Afghan dialect of Farsi (Persian). It is written in a modified Arabic alphabet, and it has many Arabic and Persian loanwords.

Detailed explanation-4: -Dari, Farsi, and Pashto are all Aryan (Iranian) languages belonging to the Indo-European language family. While Dari and Farsi are two accents of the same language, Pashto is a different language.

Detailed explanation-5: -Farsi and Dari are the same language. They’re mutually intelligible, have mostly the same grammar, and the formal forms are almost identical-other than regional accents. In Iran, Iranians refer to their language as Farsi. In Afghanistan, it depends on who you ask. Officially, the language is called Dari.