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 Dari (Afghanistan) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Dari is the local written name for the Persian language in Afghanistan used mainly in official papers.
Many speakers of Dari from Afghanistan, are also able to speak languages from neighbouring countries, such as Pakistan.
This variety of Persian spoken in Afghanistan is distinct from the language of the Zoroastrians who live in Yazd and Kerman, Iran, which is also called Dari (or Gabri).
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dari_(Afghanistan)   (424 words)

  
 Afghanistan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The CIA factbook on languages in Afghanistan refers to the official languages of Afghanistan as being Persian although it is known in Afghanistan as Dari becuase it is different than Persian(local name: Dari) 50% and Pashtu 35%.
The Afghanistan nation-state as it is known today came into existence in 1747 as the Durrani Empire, and expanded outward from traditional Pashtun territories to include all of what is today Afghanistan, a portion of Mashad in Iran, and all of Pakistan and Kashmir as well.
Buddhas of Bamiyan, dating back to 1st century pre-Islamic Afghanistan, were the largest Buddha statues in the world.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Afghanistan   (6734 words)

  
 Dari - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Dari is the local name used for the Persian language in Afghanistan.
Dari is also the name of the Persian language in classical Persian poetry.
The term Dari derives from Fârsi-e Darbâri which means 'Persian of the (royal) courts'.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dari_(disambiguation)   (165 words)

  
 Afghanistan (12/05)
Dari is spoken by more than one-third of the population as a first language and serves as a lingua franca for most Afghans, though Pashto is spoken throughout the Pashtun areas of eastern and southern Afghanistan.
Afghanistan is one of the most heavily mined countries in the world; mine-related injuries number up to 100 per month, and an estimated 200,000 Afghans have been disabled by landmine/unexploded ordinances (UXO) accidents.
Afghanistan is endowed with natural resources, including extensive deposits of natural gas, petroleum, coal, copper, chromite, talc, barites, sulfur, lead, zinc, iron ore, salt, and precious and semiprecious stones.
www.state.gov /r/pa/ei/bgn/5380.htm   (6910 words)

  
 Afghanistan AssessV4 (HTML)
[15c] The formal style of Dari is closer to Tehrani Persian (Farsi); informal style in some parts of Afghanistan is closer to Tajiki of Tajikistan.
The Pashtu speaking area is defined as the south-eastern third of Afghanistan and the area of Pakistan between the Afghan border and Indus, and the implication is that the language is equally understandable on both sides of the border.
Dari, because of its literary and commercial importance, generally serves as the means of communication between speakers of different languages rather than Pashtu.
www.asylumlaw.org /docs/afghanistan/ind99b_afghanistan_ca.htm   (18030 words)

  
 Languages Of Afghanistan
Dari is taught in schools; radio Afghanistan broadcasts are promoting a standardized pronunciation of the literary language which is based on the old dictional tradition of the country, with its archaic phonetic characteristics.
PASHAYI 1% of the population in Afghanistan (1982) From Gulbahar across Kapisa and Laghman provinces to Nuristan on the Alingar River, especially the Alisheng Valley and valleys north of Sarobi.
KARAKALPAK 2,000 in Afghanistan; North of Jalalabad, also some south of Mazar-i Sharif.
www.afghan-network.net /Culture/languages.html   (1078 words)

  
 Dari All News Of Afghanistan Since 1984.
Dari language, member of the Iranian branch of the Indo-Iranian family of languages; it is, along with Pashto, one of the two official languages of Afghanistan.
Dari language member of the Iranian branch of the Indo-Iranian family of languages; it is, along with Pashto, one of the two official languages of Afghanistan.
Dari is the Afghan dialect of Farsi (Persian).
www.99hosted.com /names1194.html   (415 words)

  
 Afghanistan Online: Article (Pahlawi/Farsi/Dari)
Officially, Farsi is The Persian of Iran and Dari is the Persian spoken in Afghanistan.
Dari, as a spoken language branched to different dialects, the most important of which was Pahlawi, the language of Parthia which had preserved the oral literature of the poetic tradition of Parthia.
By the 9th century the Dari of Khurasan was the dominant speaking language of the Sassanian empire.
www.afghan-web.com /language/farsidari.html   (1297 words)

  
 Afghanistan - Society
Afghanistan is home not only to several religious sects but also to a host of different ethnic, linguistic, and tribal groups.
Because ethnic groups in Afghanistan are ranked in terms of their status and all Pashtuns consider themselves the top-ranked ethnic group, Pashtun women marry only other Pashtuns.
Before proceeding to a discussion of what Islam means in Afghanistan in the mid 1980s, it is necessary first to understand Islam as a religion and then to comprehend how Islam is practiced in Afghanistan.
www.globalsecurity.org /military/world/afghanistan/cs-society.htm   (2387 words)

  
 Afghanistan
Afghanistan, approximately the size of Texas, is bordered on the north by Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, and Tajikistan, on the extreme northeast by China, on the east and south by Pakistan, and by Iran on the west.
In the 19th century, Afghanistan became a battleground in the rivalry between imperial Britain and czarist Russia for control of Central Asia.
A history of women in Afghanistan: lessons learnt for the future or yesterdays and tomorrow: women in Afghanistan.
www.infoplease.com /ipa/A0107264.html   (1601 words)

  
 United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan
In Afghanistan IOM is increasingly focusing on technical cooperation and capacity building of government counterparts throughout all programme areas.
The top United Nations official in Afghanistan today called on that country’s Government to do its utmost to meet the benchmarks set out in a recently adopted framework for further progress in the fledgling democracy, and encouraged the international community to show continuing generosity and commitment in the next important phase of the peace process.
As the Government of Afghanistan awaited confirmation of whether the bird flu virus H5N1 had been found in Afghanistan, the Minister for Public Health, Syed Mohammad Amin Fatimi, reiterated the importance of preventative measures that people can take to contain any possible outbreak at a press conference held yesterday in Kabul.
www.unama-afg.org   (825 words)

  
 Dari Translation - Translate Dari Language Translator
Dari is spoken in the northern and western parts of Afghanistan including the capital Kabul in the east.
Dari is also the religious language of Zoroastrianism, but Dari of Afghanistan and the Dari of Zoroastrianism are completely different and unrelated.
Dari is one of the two official languages of Afghanistan, along with Pashto.
www.translation-services-usa.com /languages/dari.shtml   (321 words)

  
 Afghanistan Online: Languages Spoken in Afghanistan
Pashto and Dari (Afghan Persian/Farsi) are the official languages of Afghanistan.
Dari also has an extensive literature, actually, some of the worlds greatest poems have been written in Dari.
Pashto was declared the National Language of the country during the beginning of Zahir Shah's reign, however, Dari has always been used for business and government transactions.
www.afghan-web.com /language   (287 words)

  
 The Story of Zia Nodrat
In the Afghan language, Dari, there is a popular Afghan proverb which substantiates this truth as it states the following in Dari, the main language of Kabul, "Isa'i badin khud, Musa'i badin khud." ("Let the followers of Jesus practise their religion, and the followers of Moses theirs.")
Because different blind students like Zia had become Christians, in March of 1973 the Muslim government in Afghanistan sent a written order closing the two Institutes for the Blind, one of which was in Kabul and the other seven hundred miles to the west in Herat.
Our prayer is that the new Government of Afghanistan will respect the freedom of religion which is basic to all other liberties.
www.leaderu.com /wri/pages/zia.html   (2359 words)

  
 OHCHR: Dari () - Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Formal style is closer to Persian Farsi, whereas informal style in some parts of Afghanistan is closer to Tajik of Tajikistan.
OHCHR: Dari () - Universal Declaration of Human Rights
It is taught in schools and a standardised pronunciation of the literary language is being promoted.
www.unhchr.ch /udhr/lang/prs1.htm   (84 words)

  
 Dari Afghanistan's language Dari Mail, Dari Email
Dari, The most widely spoken language in Afghanistan.
dari.8m.com   (28 words)

  
 AOP: Today's News on Afghanistan
Afghanistan, as Kolko points out, is a classic case in which the Americans overestimated their ability to change events on the other side of the world.
Afghanistan, where Canada has been militarily involved since the U.S.-led invasion of 2001, is the latest and most flamboyant example of this.
Soldiers of God: With Islamic Warriors in Afghanistan and Pakistan
www.aopnews.com /today.html   (4769 words)

  
 Chrenkoff
Afghanistan's ministry of information and culture is now creating a computer database to record all the artefacts in the museum's collection.
SECURITY: Afghanistan's militants are suffering a decline; according to security experts the Taliban still pose a threat and continue to enjoy some support in the ethnic Pashtun areas of the country, but "the Taliban movement suffered a serious psychological and military setback after failing to disrupt Afghanistan's presidential election...
Afghanistan once used to be a large tourist attraction, but years of conflict have driven visitors away.
chrenkoff.blogspot.com /2004/12/good-news-from-afghanistan-part-7.html   (9083 words)

  
 Afghanan Dot Net
Helmand has concentrated doses of Afghanistan's most worrying problems: a corrupt local government and police; vast swaths of territory under the control of the Taliban; and a fast-growing drug industry.
Their mission is to impose order and facilitate development in a lost province where violence, crime and bitter tribal rivalries are part of everyday life.
The chancellor, who is now in the United States for a medical checkup, has been informally notified by the Office of the U.N. secretary general of his possible nomination, but he has not replied yet, the official said.
www.afghanan.net /index.php   (1924 words)

  
 Afghanistan Peace Organization
No, people of Afghanistan are Afghans, consisting of many different ethnicities, but we are united as Afghans.
Hazaras: They live in the central mountainous areas of Afghanistan and are known to be very talented and hardworking group of people.
Islam is the dominant religion in Afghanistan, but there are also Sikh, Hindu, Jewish and Christian people living in Afghanistan.
www.afghanistan.org   (271 words)

  
 afghanistan map flag news calling at centralasia-daily.com
Afghanistan, approximately the size of Texas, is bordered on the north by...
Afghanistan, an extensive country of Asia, north-west of India...
The surface of Afghanistan is very irregular, – lofty table lands, vast mountains, deep valleys, and ravines...
www.centralasia-daily.com /search/air/asia/china/afghanistan.htm   (258 words)

  
 Afgha.com - News - Afghanistan
Four Albanian and four Afghan employees of a German company have been kidnapped in southern Afghanistan.
The governor of Kandahar Province, Asadullah Khalid, said the authorities were investigating the abduction by armed men in the southern province of Helmand on March 11.
Wali Massoud,39-year-old, recently returned to Afghanistan after spending 17 years in London where he served as chardé d'affaires and ambassador.
www.afgha.com   (428 words)

  
 [ www.azadiradio.org ]
Radio Free Afghanistan would like to announce parameter changes that will affect the reception of our radio signal.
“Revamping Afghanistan's judicial system from top to bottom”--“The Kabul stop may prove to be the easiest part of Bush's tour”
[ 20:30 ] Bodies Of Kidnapped Foreign Workers Found In Afghanistan
www.azadiradio.org /en   (350 words)

  
 Internews - Regions - Afghanistan
Afghanistan country profile and map from the BBC News - World Edition.
National presidential elections were held in Afghanistan in the fall of 2004.
A report that defines community radio and how it could work in Afghanistan (Word document in Dari and English).
www.internews.org /regions/centralasia/afghanistan.htm   (1911 words)

  
 Author for dari language
The Climate of Afghanistan [Dari] / by Ghulam Jailani Arez, Kabul
The Tajiki of Transoxiana [Dari] / by A. Ravan Farhadi, Kabul,
Geography of Afghanistan [Dari] / Ghulam Jailani Arez, Mohibullah
www.geocities.com /mstanikzai/bibliography/Author-a.html   (11608 words)

  
 Islamic World.Net: Countries site for Muslims who love Allah and Jihad.
CNN In-Depth: Afghanistan: The Regime and Their U.N. Battle - archive of related stories, as well as an examination of current Taleban rulings and the origins of the party
Afghanistan's Web Site - invites Afghans to express their opinion about issues which affect their lives, A forum for the mutual support of the Afghan community
Stop Gender Apartheid in Afghanistan - once educated and employed, Afghan women are now being beaten and shot for trying to exercise basic human rights.
islamic-world.net /countries/afghanistan.htm   (667 words)

  
 RADIO FREE EUROPE/ RADIO LIBERTY
March 18 -- Suspected Taliban gunmen today killed the former governor of Afghanistan's Ghazni Province and four of his guards, and hours later tried to kill the province's current governor.
Bodies Of Kidnapped Foreign Workers Found In Afghanistan
One Militant, One Civilian Killed In Fighting In Afghanistan
www.rferl.org /bd/af   (342 words)

  
 Evertype: Computer Locale Requirements for Afghanistan
In December 2002 the United Nations Development Programme Country Office for Afghanistan commissioned a report on the language support required for Pashto and Dari, Afghanistan’s official languages.
In addition, the Project Team (Michael Everson of Evertype, Dublin, and Roozbeh Pournader of the FarsiWeb Project, Tehran) was successful in collecting similar information for a number of other languages of Afghanistan, namely, Southern Uzbek and Brahui.
Dari ICU data for Afghanistan: text file in UTF-8 encoding (legible)
www.evertype.com /standards/af   (298 words)

  
 Afghanistan News
Afghanistan News by Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA)
Rebuilding Afghanistan - A section of The Times of Central Asia (based in Kyrgyztan) presenting articles on Afghan politics and news.
Quetta (Pakistan) based site which is a combination of magazines published inside Afghanistan: "The Islamic Emirate" and " Afghanistan Today" which are published inside the country and also weekly newspaper "The Kabultimes".
www.afghana.com /Education/News.htm   (347 words)

  
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This rebuilding highlights Afghanistan’s strong commitment to building a bright future on the foundations of a venerable past.
This holy site serves as a focal point for the community, a place where the men and women of Kabul come both to pray, and to celebrate the Afghan New Year.
President Bush pledged that the United States will “help women stand up for their freedom no matter where they live,” saying the full and equal participation of women in civic and political life has strengthened democracies around the world.
afghanistan.usembassy.gov   (427 words)

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