Dari (درى)

Dari is the the variety of Persian spoken in Afghanistan, where it is one of the two official languages and is used as a lingua franca among the different language communities. About 5 million people speak Dari in Afghanistan. There are also about 2.5 million Dari speakers in the Iran and Pakistan.

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

Dari alphabet and pronunciation (الفباى دري)

Dari alphabet and pronunciation

Dari sample text

Dari sample text (Article 1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights)

Transliteration

Tamām-e afrād-e bašar āzād zāde mīšūnad va az leḥāż-e ḥais̱īyat-o karāmat-o ḥoqūq bā ham barābarānd. hamgī dārā-ye ʿaql-o vejdān hastand va bāyad bā yekdīgar bā rūḥīye ai barādarāne raftār konand.

Translation

All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.
(Article 1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights)

Dari language courses and dictionaries

Links

Information about the Dari language and alphabets
http://www.lmp.ucla.edu/Profile.aspx?LangID=191&menu=004
http://learn.afghanteens.net/dari/
http://www.sabawoon.com/afghanpedia/Language.Dari.shtm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dari_(Afghanistan)
http://members.tripod.com/~khorasan/Miscellaneous/Dari.htm

Dari Language Project - a linguistic research organization dedicated to the documentation of Dari: http://www.darilanguageproject.org

Radio Free Europe Dari Service
http://www.ozodi.org/

News in Dari (in the Cyrillic alphabet)
http://www.ozodi.org/

Language learning books and software for Pashto, Dari / Farsi / Persian
http://web.comhem.se/kodakan/

Related languages

Avestan, Dari, Kurdish, Ossetian, Pashto, Persian, Tajik

Other languages written with the Cyrillic alphabet