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Where is the Dari form of Persian spoken outside Iran?
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The Dari form of Persian is primarily spoken in Afghanistan, where it serves as one of the country's two official languages alongside Pashto. It is spoken by approximately half of the Afghan population and functions as a key medium of communication between speakers of different languages in the region.12