Constitutional Standoff. Dari became an official language in Afghanistan in the country's 1964 constitution. Two earlier constitutions in the 20th century had labeled it Farsi.

Afghanistan has two nationally recognized official languages: Pashto and Dari Persian. Dari Persian is the most common language, with 78% of people in Afghanistan able to speak the language.

The status of the Dari and Pashto languages has always been a sensitive issue in Afghanistan. Both Dari -- also called Farsi -- and Pashto belong to the Indo-European family of languages. Pashto ...

Pashto is one of Afghanistan’s national languages and is used for official communications by the Taliban, which has controlled the country since the chaotic U.S. withdrawal in August 2021.

FORT CAMPBELL, Ky.—The first class of Fort Campbell soldiers graduated on Friday from an Afghan language training program to help them communicate during their upcoming deployment. A total of 73 ...

The Taliban’s anti-Persian stance is rooted in their educational and cultural background, but also reflects a longstanding desire by successive Afghan governments to displace the Persian language.

Soldiers at Fort Campbell, Ky., and Fort Carson, Colo.,are now taking language courses that will better prepare them to meet the demands of operations in Afghanistan.

MOTASIM (in Afghan language): ♪ (aircraft flying in distance) NARRATOR: By 2005, the Taliban reorganized and the mission of the international coalition became more complicated.

The course is designed to teach Soldiers to read and write, as well as form sentences, preparing them to have fluid conversations with their Afghan counterparts, explained Cristina Bartow, command ...

Language has long been a sore point in Afghanistan, where it has exposed unresolved tensions among the country's ethnic and linguistic groups. Same Language "Dari is not the Afghan dialect of Farsi," ...