Dari

Dari (دری, Dari) or Dari-Persian (فارسی دری, Fārsīy e Dari), also known as Eastern Persian, is a variety of the Persian language, spoken primarily in Afghanistan .

Afghanistan
In Afghanistan, the Persian official language and is the home of spoken by about half of the population. Furthermore, it is by most people who have mastered enjoyed teaching and it functions as the lingua francaamong the various population groups. Afghans call the Persian as the Iranians and Tajiks also Persian (Farsi in Persian), but since 1964 in Afghanistan named "Dari" (comes from Darbari = language of the royal family), for political reasons officially used.

Features
Dari or Farsi as East that today is spoken in Afghanistan differs from the Iranian or Persian Western among others, because the language in Afghanistan has remained in a "purer" form. This difference came only in the late 18th century, because Iran more came in contact with Turkic peoples, came under the influence of the latter and was long ruled by dynasties with a Turkish background. Afghanistan was in turn less come under the influence and has kept to the Persian longer in its original form. Emphasis will also differ.

There are also differences in the nuance of meaning: the Iranian Persian Arab, for example, the word for Arabic, also a connotation of being rude or crude, which has not in Dari.

Other countries
In large parts of the Indian subcontinent Persian was for centuries both the administrative language as the language of the dominant culture to the British here in 1843 ended. Still live scattered across Pakistan small communities who use Persian. Their number is estimated at around 24 to 25 million.