Dari

66K people can hold a conversation in Dari across 1 country; official in 0.

Data as of 28 Oct 2026 · ISO 639-3 prs · Glottolog dari1249 · Indo-European · CLDR 49, Glottolog 5.3, States sheet

Where Dari is spoken

Share of each country's people who can hold a conversation in it.

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Countries

Share of the population and people who can hold a conversation in it, by country.

How this is measured

Most figures are CLDR's estimates of speakers. CLDR lists only each country's larger languages, so where it has no figure a national census or official survey fills in, and the Figure column says which and what it counts. A home-language figure is a floor: more people can speak the language than use it at home.

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Canada

none · Census, mother tongue

0.2%

66K

#	Country			Status	Figure
1	Canada	0.2%	66K	none	Census, mother tongue

States where it is the first language

States whose first language is this one, largest population first.

5.2M

2.1M

1.5M

1.1M

1.1M

1.1M

1.1M

1.0M

764K

738K

Wardak [Maīdān Wardak]

Afghanistan

660K

Sar-e Pul [Sar-e Pol]

Afghanistan

621K

#	State	Country
1	Kābul	Afghanistan	5,204,667
2	Herāt	Afghanistan	2,140,662
3	Balkh	Afghanistan	1,509,183
4	Kunduz	Afghanistan	1,136,677
5	Fāryāb	Afghanistan	1,109,223
6	Takhār	Afghanistan	1,093,092
7	Badakhshān	Afghanistan	1,054,087
8	Baghlān	Afghanistan	1,014,634
9	Ghōr	Afghanistan	764,472
10	Parwān	Afghanistan	737,700
11	Wardak [Maīdān Wardak]	Afghanistan	660,258
12	Sar-e Pul [Sar-e Pol]	Afghanistan	621,002
13	Jowzjān	Afghanistan	602,082
14	Farāh	Afghanistan	563,026
15	Dāykundī	Afghanistan	516,504
16	Bāmyān	Afghanistan	495,557
17	Kāpīsā	Afghanistan	488,298
18	Samangān	Afghanistan	430,489
19	Nīmrōz [Nimruz]	Afghanistan	183,554
20	Panjshīr	Afghanistan	169,926
21	Nūristān	Afghanistan	163,814

Family

Where it sits in the Glottolog tree, root to language.

Indo-European
Classical Indo-European
Indo-Iranian
Iranian-Nuristani
Iranian
Southwestern Iranian
Middle-Modern Persian
Modern Southwestern Iranian
Farsic-Caucasian Tat
Farsic
Eastern Farsic
Dari

Indo-European: 216 languages, 5.95B speakers.

Where these numbers come from

Unicode CLDR territoryInfo (release 49) (Unicode License v3). Country-level language shares, official status and Tier 3 reach (populationPercent is total speakers, first plus second language).
Glottolog 5.3 (CC BY 4.0). Language names, ISO 639-3 codes, families.
Database of International and Intranational Linguistic distances (DICL v2), USITC (CC BY 4.0). Country-pair linguistic proximity (loaded, not yet shown in release one).
States (ISO 3166-2) sheet, MetroAreas workbook (Citizen of Nowhere, own compilation). States, populations and the four language labels per state.
Natural Earth 1:110m Admin 0 Countries (nvkelso/natural-earth-vector) (Public domain). World outline for the language maps (world-110m.geojson, properties reduced to iso3 and name).
Country layer of this site (countries.json workbook population, World Bank iso2 and iso3, OWID country-population) (Citizen of Nowhere, own compilation; World Bank CC BY 4.0; OWID CC BY). Country population, iso2 and /countries slug joined onto languages, countries and families (speakers = share x population).

Definitions are on the Method page.