Is Dari The original Farsi?

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.

Where does Dari come from?

Afghanistan
Dari is the Afghan dialect of Persian and as such is sometimes referred to as “Eastern Persian”. Dari, rather than Pashto, serves as the lingua franca for the languages of Afghanistan. Roughly one-third of the population of Afghanistan (approximately five million) speak the language.

What is the difference between Dari and Persian?

Dari vs Farsi. Persian is the language spoken in Iran and Afghanistan and in some other countries that had Persian cultural influences. In fact, Persian was the official language of the Muslim rulers in Indian subcontinent before the arrival of the British. Persian is also known as Dari or Farsi.

What is the difference between Iranian Persian and Afghan Persian?

Iranian Persian and Afghan Persian are formally almost the same. You would barely hear the differences if you hear an Iranian speaking in formal Farsi and an Afghan speaking in formal Dari. There are minor differences in the formal languages of both countries. The differences are in the informal languages of both countries.

Why is the Dari language so controversial in Afghanistan?

It is the politics surrounding Dari that has angered many Persian speakers, who say the term Dari was favored by Pashtun leaders as a means of distancing Afghanistan from the Persian cultural and political sphere.

Which Aryan dialect is similar to the Persian language?

An Aryan (Iranian) dialect which is similar to Persian (Farsi) is Dari. Farsi and Dari are two varieties of the same Persian language. Dari, also known as Dari persian (‘Porsi ye Dari’), is spoken in Afghanistan. From my paternal side i am an Afghan by blood, so I can speak Dari Persian, and for me Iranian Persian is quite intelligible.