Dari language
Dari-Persian is one of the two official languages of Afghanistan, along with Pashto. Dari is the name used for the Persian language in official papers of Afghanistan. Persian (Dari) is spoken in the northern and western parts of Afghanistan including the capital Kabul in the east. Approximately half the population of Afghanistan (Tajik, Uzbek, Turkmen, Hazara, some Pashtoon), speak Persian, with bilingualism widespread. It is the primary language of the Tajik, Hazara, and Chahar Aimak peoples. Persian serves as the means of communication between speakers of different languages in Afghanistan.
It is written in a modified Arabic alphabet, and it has many Arabic loanwords. The syntax of Dari-Persian does not differ greatly from (Iran's Persian), but the stress accent is less prominent in Dari-Persian than in Iran's Persian. To mark attribution, Dari-Persian uses the suffix -ra. The vowel system of Dari differs from that of Iran's Persian, and Dari also has additional consonants.
Persian is also the religious language of Zoroastrianism.
