language

language

Pashto and Dari are the official languages of afghanistan pashto was declared the official language of afghanistan during the start of Zahir Shahs reigon but however Dari has been the main used language for buisness and government transactions both belong to the indo European. The united states government has estimated that about 35 percent of the population of afghanistan speak Pashto and about 50 percent of the population speak Dari 11 percent of the people in afghanistan speak Uzbak and turkmen. But there are many diffrent languages that they speak in afghanistan both Dari and Pashto are mainly written in arabic alphabet but there are some modifications. Pashto saw major improvement in th 17th century due to poets like khushal Khan Khattak who is known today as the national poet of afghanistan.

Afghanistan Language []