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Afghanland.com:
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5000 BC there were 2
different languages categorized
All
languages are categorized into 2 major groups (Indo European and
Proto European)
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Tocharian
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Tajiki
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Dari
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Farsi
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The two major languages of Afghanistan
are Dari and Pashto (hazaragi is a dialect spoken by the
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DARI
Dari دری Darī, pronounced daer ree) in historical terms refers to
the persian court language of the Sassanids. In essence, Middle
Persian is similar to Dari while Farsi was the slang language of
the countryside. The modern Persian spoken in Iran is a dialect of
Pahlavi. Dari is the name
given to the New Persian literary language at a very early age and
was widely used in Arabic and Persian texts. Scholars believe that
Dari refers to the Persian word dar or darbār meaning "Court", as
it was the formal language of the Sassanids. The original meaning
of the word dari according to ibn muqaffa, is the language of the
cities of Madā'en; it is spoken by those who are at the king’s
court.
PASHTO
Pashto is spoken in the Southern , South eastern Provinces of
Afghanistan, Pashtu could possibly be the ancestors all Hebrew
Languages,
and the language of the lost tribes of Israel.
8% of 150 million in
Pakistan speak Pashto and 35% of 27 million in Afghanistan. 12
milllion in Pakistan and 9.45 million in Afghanistan with
total of 21.45 million pashto speakers on each
side of the Durrand Line.
Pashtuns are
sometimes compared with the Pakhta tribes mentioned in the Rigveda
(1700–1100 BC), apparently the same as a people called Pactyans,
described by the Greek historian Herodotus as living in the
Achaemenid's Arachosia Satrapy as early as the 1st millennium BC.
However, this comparison appears to be due mainly to the apparent,
etymologically unjustified, similarity between their names
UZBAKI
Uzbaki is spoken by 1 Million Turkmens and 300 thousand of those
speak Turkmani.
Uzbek is a language which can be
considered the direct descendant or a latter form of Chagatay, the
language of great Turkic Central Asian literary development in the
realm of Chagatai Khan, Timur (Tamerlane), and the Timurids. The
language was championed by Mir Ali-Sher Nawa'i in the 15th and
16th centuries. Ultimately based on the Qarluq variant of the
Turkic languages, it contained large numbers of Persian and Arabic
loan-words. By the 19th century it was rarely used for literary
composition.
Others
Other major languages Includes Baluchi modern Nooristani.
The
Major Languages of Afghanistan are Pashto and Dari where an Afghan
is familiar with at least one of these languages. Even thought
there are over 60% pashtoons in Afghanistan, less than a third
speak Dari.
Pashto
35%, Dari 50%, Turkic languages (primarily Uzbek and Turkmen) 11%,
30 minor languages (primarily Balochi and Pashai) 4%, much
bilingualism
Source:Afghanland.com
and CIA world fact book
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