What is the difference between persian and dari

Now, back to the first three. This is the same language we find today in Middle Persian Zoroastrian literature. According to Ibn Muqaffa, Dari was the language of the city-dwellers and the royal court, which in Sasanian times resided in Mesopotamia. It was also spoken in Khurasan and the eastern regions of the Empire. Dari was the court dialect, which gradually spread to the eastern regions of the Empire, while Parsi was the southern dialect. The speakers of both could understand each other.

Later Dari Persian also spread to the southern regions and became the standard literary language. Today, Persian is spoken in three countries: Iran, Afghanistan and Tajikistan.

To someone who is not familiar with Persian, it might seem that these are three different languages. However, this is not entirely the case. Still, it would make more sense to consider them different regional variants of the same Persian language. They are mutually intelligible. However, many people, especially people in the western world confuse between Dari and Farsi because of their similarities.

This article attempts to highlight the differences between these two languages. Dari is the official Afghan language spoken and understood by a vast majority of the population. The other prominent language spoken by Afghans happens to be Pashto. Western world often calls this language Afghan Persian because of the phonetic similarities and grammatical overlapping with the Farsi language, the official language of Iran.

Dari is spoken by nearly 5 million people in Afghanistan and happens to be the common language of communication. However, they share the same alphabet, some words, geography, and culture. Pashto and Dari both use the Arabic alphabet which consists of 28 letters. Dari has added 4 letters of its own to the Arabic alphabet making its alphabet 32 letters and Pashto has added 12 letters to the Arabic alphabet making its alphabet 40 letters.

Since Pashto and Dari are spoken in the same geographical region, the speakers of one language are very often exposed to the other language.

Most major cities in Afghanistan host both Pashto and Dari native speakers. Most Pashto native speakers in these cities speak Dari as a second language, but very few Dari native speakers may speak Pashto as their second language.

Education is provided to kids in their native language and they start studying Pashto or Dari as a second language in the 4th grade. The […]. These have the largest […]. Can I learn to speak a foreign language without an accent as an adult? The answer is no. When written, Afghan Persian is exactly the same as Iranian Persian. When written, the verb conjugations of both dialects are the same. However, when spoken, the verb conjugations in Afghan Persian and most vocabulary are entirely different!

This is just a brief list of differences. Let me know if you need any more help. Thanks for your reply. Well as i search in google Dari comes from Darbar, And it was spoken by those who were living in kingdom. As far as i know the write mibarand, so why do they pronounce it as mibara. Alijsh Senior Member Tehran.