Dari and Pashto are the two official languages of Afghanistan. Dari is often spoken as a lingua franca by those whose mother tongue is one of the minority Afghan languages. Dari is also …

The non-Indo-European language family includes Turkish, Semitic and Seraiki language groups in Afghanistan, the existence of Uyghur, Kyrgyz, Arabic and Zargari languages is currently in …

A review of the Afghani languages of Pashto and Dari points to possible problems for the Afghani English as a second language student. Issues covered are: (1) the pronunciation of …

Translated Resource Materials: For Afghani Dari and Pashto Translations SAMHSA: Mental health. Dari Translations: · Age-Related Reactions to a Traumatic Event · After a Crisis: …

The story ‘The North Wind and the Sun’ was adapted by the language consultant from Majidi & Ternes’s (1999) Farsi version, to reflect Afghan word choice and usage.

In the study of the languages in and around Afghanistan we are dealing with language history and process on three scales: local communities; Persianate (or eastern-Islamic) civilization; and …

Several examples of this, going from recent history to the 1839–42 First Anglo-Afghan War, will help demonstrate the multilingualism that is the hallmark of language use in Afghanistan.