Dari New Testament / First edition / Kitabi Mukaddes Sirketi - UBS 2019 / Paperback / Afghan Persian  NT / Farsi NT

Paperback 2019

ISBN: 9789754621204 / 978-9754621204

ISBN-10: 9754621209

Publisher: Kitabi Mukaddes Sirketi

PAGES: 735

LANGUAGE: FARSI (DARI) Afghan persian

English Summary:

Dari is the the variety of Persian spoken in Afghanistan, where it is one of the two official languages, along with Pashto, and is used as a lingua franca among the different language communities. Dari is also used as the medium of instruction in Afghan schools.

About a quarter to a half of the population of Afghanistan speak Dari as a native language, the majority of whom are Tajiks Dari is also spoken by Hazaras and Aymāqs. There are also 2.5 million Dari-speaking Afghans in Pakistan. The total number of Dari speakers is about 12.5 million

Dari is known as دری (Darī), فارسی دری (Fārsī-ye Darī) or Afghan Persian. It is mutually intelligible with Persian (Farsi) of Iran, though there are some differences in pronunciation and grammar.

Dari is written with a version of the Perso-Arabic script.