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Encyclopedia > Academy of Sciences of Afghanistan

Academy of Sciences of Afghanistan is the official goverment agency of Afghanistan that regulates the Dari (Persian) and Pashtu languages spoken in Afghanistan. It also works with Tajikstan and Iran's official goverment agencies to regulate literature. Dari is a term used to denote one of several closely related Persian dialects spoken in what used to be Greater Khorasan: The official name for the Persian language in Afghanistan; see Dari (Afghanistan) One name used by Zoroastrians (the others being Gabri and Yazdi) to refer to the Northwestern... Pashto (پښتو; also known as Afghan, Pushto, Pashto, Pashtoe, Pashtu, and Pukhto) is the language spoken by the ethnic Afghan otherwise known as the Pashtun people who inhabit Afghanistan and the Western provinces of Pakistan. ...


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Persian language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (1272 words)
In Tehran the Academy of Persian Language and Literature is a center that evaluates the new words in order to initiate and advise their Persian equivalents.
In Afghanistan, the Academy of Sciences of Afghanistan does the same for Afghan Persian (among other languages).
The Academy of Persian Language and Literature as well as many lexicographers have announced that "Farsi" is not the appropriate term to use for the Persian language in English.
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