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An unidentified person on April 20, 2006 changed the page from a disambiguation page to a content page about Persian Dari (parsiye dari). It seems to me that all the added information should be included in the Persian language and literature pages, and that the Dari page's status as disambiguation page should be restored. --Maziart 08:09, 26 April 2006 (UTC)

Agree, or perhaps moved into a page called something like History of the Persian language. This page should, as before, be disambiguation between Dari (Afghanistan), Dari (Zoroastrian) and Persian language. Marm 22:36, 2 May 2006 (UTC)

Excuse-me because I really don't know anything about Dari but... just because of this, it seems to me that Dari entry and Dari (Zoroastrian) look like they're talking about the same thing. If same, I guess they should be merged. If different... well, the difference should be made more evident for those (as myself) who don't see the difference Ictlogist 13:56, 26 April 2006 (UTC)

See above. Marm 22:36, 2 May 2006 (UTC)


21 September 2006 -As a military dari linguist in the USAF, I find that the Dari (Zoroastrian) is accurate to my studies, but misses a rather giant point: Dari is one of two official languages of Afghanistan. Pashto is the other. Dari, as I can tell you from personal experience, is much different from iranian farsi, even though in afghanistan, dari is called "farsi" by those who speak dari. The difference in written form is about the difference between portugese and spanish... I can read farsi just fine, but understanding it takes quite a bit of effort. Additionally, the spoken form is much more different. Unlike what wikipedia states, written dari is different than written farsi. imo it should be treated as such. This page should be restored to what it was.


  • In comparison with the language spoken in Teheran and other Iranian major cities, Dari language is closer
to the official (written) language of Iran.


  • so-called Persian language is not related to the Persian Tribe who established the Persian
Empire by the aid of Medians,eventually demolished by Alexander the Great. And also the
Geographical origion of this language is not the residence area of Persians, situated in the
South of "Iran" and locally named "FARS". The geographical origion of this language is
the "Central Asia". That is why all pioneer poets of this language are from this area, mainly
situated in Afghanistan, Uzbakistan and Tajikistan.The original speakers of this language,that
speak it more perfectly than "Iranians", are called TAJIK.Therefore, "Persian" or "Farsi" is a
wrong name for this language.


BS...on those days the languages were only dialects and different accents, nothing more. Sure, modern Persian language was formed in central Asia by central Asian“s Persian populations, the Tajiks, whos one of their main ancestors or their main ancestors are the Persians, and modern Persian is influenced by Parthian and Sogdian dialects of Persian ...but the elements are still a south-western ones. Therefore, it is correct to call the language as Persian--84.59.111.229 (talk) 15:21, 21 May 2008 (UTC)