Persian

An Iranian language within the Indo-Iranian branch of the Indo-European languages, widely spoken in Iran, Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and to some extent in Armenia, Azerbaijan and Bahrain:


Persian Language

Note 1: Farsi and Parsi are two local names for the Persian language.

Note 2: Dari (also referred to as Afghan Persian), in contemporary usage, refers to the dialects of modern Persian language spoken in Afghanistan.

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Khyber Pass

An important trade route between Central Asia and South Asia; a strategic military location, that is a mountain pass which links Pakistan and Afghanistan:

Khyber Pass

In Farsi: گذرگاه خیبر
In Pashto: د خیبر دره
In Urdu: دره خیبر

Rem:

Farsi or Persian is widely spoken in Iran, Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and to some extent in Armenia, Iraq, Bahrain, and Oman.

Pashto also known as Afghani, is a member of the Iranian languages group which is spoken primarily by the Pashtun people in Afghanistan and Pakistan.

Urdu is the national language and one of the two official languages of Pakistan (the other is English), and an official language of five Indian states.

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