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What race are Afghans from?
Ethnic composition
| Ethnic group | “Afghanistan: Where Things Stand” (2004) “A survey of the Afghan people” (2004) | “A survey of the Afghan people” (2012) |
|---|---|---|
| Pashtun | 46\% | 40\% |
| Tajik | 39\% | 33\% |
| Hazara | 6\% | 11\% |
| Uzbek | 6\% | 9\% |
Are the Pashtuns Taliban?
The Taliban are a movement of religious students (talib) from the Pashtun areas of eastern and southern Afghanistan who were educated in traditional Islamic schools.
What is Afghan DNA?
The Afghan genetic structure tends to correlate Hazara and Uzbek which belong to two different language families. Hazara, like Pashtun and Tajik, belong to the Indo-Iranian group of the Indo-European family, while the Uzbek language is in the Turkic family.
Is Pashtun an Iranian?
The origins of the Pashtuns are not entirely clear, but their language is classified as an Eastern Iranian tongue, itself a sub-branch of the Indo-Iranian branch of the greater Indo-European family of languages, and thus the Pashtuns are often classified as an Iranian peoples, notably as probable modern day descendants …
What languages do people speak in Afghanistan?
One of the official languages of Afghanistan is Dari, also known as Farsi or Afghan Persian. It is considered a modern dialect of the Persian language. Of the two official languages, it is more dominant and considered the lingua franca, or trade language, of the country.
Do Afghans speak Arabic?
Most Afghans do not speak Arabic any more than a person who grew up Catholic speaks Latin. They do, however, speak languages like Dari, Poshto, Uzbek, and some others. Arabic is once again, suspiciously absent.
What is the primary language of Afghanistan?
Afghanistan is a multilingual country in which two languages – Dari and Pashto – are both official and most widely spoken.
Is FARsi Spoken in Afghanistan?
Darī (Dari: دری [daˈɾiː]) or Dari Persian (فارسی دری Fārsī-ye Darī [fɒːɾsije daˈɾiː]) or synonymously Farsi (فارسی Fārsī [fɒːɾsiː]) is a variation of the Persian language spoken in Afghanistan.