How many of you know dari langauge?

[Dinosaur Khan]

Dari, a pure form of farsi, is national langauge of afghanistan in addition to pashto.
How many of you can speak it?

and correct me if i am wrong, dari seems dominant over pashto in term of influence and use in afghanistan, why? what are the reasons.

[IamDZJ]

your concern over the linguistic divisions of Afghanistan anger and alarms me.
i speak it.

[Dinosaur Khan]

your concern over the linguistic divisions of Afghanistan anger and alarms me.
i speak it.

But why?

[IamDZJ]

feels like a slap in the face.

[Dinosaur Khan]

feels like a slap in the face.

You are over-reacting, dari is beautiful langauge and it should be national langauge of afghanistan. But as a pashtun i feel concerned about condition of pashto langauge there. It seems that pashto has lagged behind dari there.

[IamDZJ]

well rest assured. both languages are respected and valued by educated afghans. the rest can go to hell. dari was an official language long before pashto was made one so there is more history of it. period.

[Laila]

I can speak 'Farsi'

Some reasons why Farsi has been used more is because of the literature and majority of school curriculum has been sent from Iran. I mean look at our own politics. You cannot deny that Farsi is used more.

My family recognizes both languages. Though i do value Pashto more because i didnt speak it fluently growing up, it is our native tongue. But i am not prejudice to see what language is better or dominant.

[Laila]

Pashto is far more valued as compared to Dari.
The Govt speaks Dari, With Pashto words.
Just take a look at all the words they use, Loya jirga, the street signs are majority in pashto, the national anthem is in Pashto, I mean just think about it the army has all its ranks in Pashto,

Neither are dominant, they are both MIXED.

Someone who speaks dari, speaks a ton of Pashto words without even realizing.

Even the tajiks in the majority pashun provinces speak fluent pashto

[Shayesta]

@Jodigul
As a Pukhtoon, why don't you rather feel concerned about status of Pukhto in Pakistan where Pukhtoons can't even count in Pukhto? In fact, right now Pukhtoons might speak Pukhto with a lot of Urdu words here and there, but I won't be surprised if in future they speak Urdu with just some Pukhto words here and there.......

And about Dari, it has been an official language way before Pukhto and all non-Pukhtoons of Afghanistan speak Dari but they have learnt Pukhto only since Afghanistan separated from Iran. Moreover, I have stated before that majority Pukhtoons are sh*t when it comes to maintaining their language and therefore most of the educational materials are provided by Tajiks in, obviously, Dari.

[Levanaye Zalmaye]

@Jodigul
As a Pukhtoon, why don't you rather feel concerned about status of Pukhto in Pakistan where Pukhtoons can't even count in Pukhto? In fact, right now Pukhtoons might speak Pukhto with a lot of Urdu words here and there, but I won't be surprised if in future they speak Urdu with just some Pukhto words here and there.......

Actually, that's a real concern here.

And yeah, even the nationalist Pashtuns here count in Urdu.

[Niazmina]

Wait, so I don't understand the point of this thread...

[tor_khan]

Actually, that's a real concern here.

And yeah, even the nationalist Pashtuns here count in Urdu.

I honestly think that counting in Pashto is easier.

Nationalists?
If they were people of principle then they would have moved the masses to not accept any compromise on the renaming of NWFP. Khyber Pakhtunkhwa is fine actually, but I hate the fact that after all these years of waiting, it was still the demands of the Panjab that influenced this.

Pashto is losing out to Urdufication. That's a very disappointing trend. You even have Peshawaris speaking a hotch potch Pashto-English-Urdu.

Try sitting through a broadcast from AVT "brainwashed Pashtoons" Khyber tv and their agenda becomes apparent in about 10 minutes.

We reconfigured our satellite system and now we get Shamshad. It's way better.

[Dinosaur Khan]

@Jodigul
As a Pukhtoon, why don't you rather feel concerned about status of Pukhto in Pakistan where Pukhtoons can't even count in Pukhto?

Who has told you such a big lie? always remember that Every educated or illitrate pakhtun in pakhtunkhwa can count in pashto (i am not sure about those in west though)
ywa, dwa,dre,chalor,pinjo,spazh,wu,atu,nu,lus,yolus,dol us,dairlus,chwarlus,pinjolus,shparlus,wolus,atulus ,nolus, shal,yobandeshal....so on

In pakistan pashto subject is compulsory upto fifth class, it is upto our pashtun leaders to make it compulsory upto 10th class in similar fashion like sindh so no need of blaming very thing on paksitan and others.

And believe me pashto at instance is more relatively more safe than in afghanistan.

[karachipashtun]

Jodigul,
We Pashtuns of Pakistan do count in Pashto it's the sad truth.
we can't hide from the truth.

And what you stated was a lie of how Pashto is a compulsory subject,no it's not at all.

only Urdu is lazmi zabaan. Pashto has little to no respect in Pakistan.

Pashto has a huge role in Afghanistan everything in the Afghan govt is in Pashto even the anthem like another member pointed out even the street signs,univesity signs and military ranks are in Pashto.


As sad to say this, hopefully one day Pakistans Pashto can reach our motherlands level. Where it is a National language.

[Dinosaur Khan]

@karachipashtun
Listen wrora, as i have said before that i can not gaurantee about pashtuns living outside pashtunkhwa that they will know how to count in pashto, you are from karachi.
Pashtuns in pashtunkhwa can count in pashto but prefer to count in urdu as it is easier in case of high digits and calculations.