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Which languages have official status in Afghanistan?
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The two official languages of Afghanistan are Dari and Pashto.123
Both are Indo-European languages. Dari, which is the Afghan dialect of Persian, is spoken by approximately half of the population and serves as a primary means of communication between different linguistic groups. Pashto is spoken by more than two-fifths of the population and is the native language of the Pashtuns. While these are the official languages, the country is home to a diverse mosaic of other linguistic groups, including various Turkic, Dardic, and Balochi languages.31