What to call the Persian language in Afghanistan? It's a question Afghans have grappled with and sparred over for decades. The long-simmering dispute was reignited after the BBC changed the name of ...

The status of the Dari and Pashto languages has always been a sensitive issue in Afghanistan. Both Dari -- also called Farsi -- and Pashto belong to the Indo-European family of languages. Pashto is ...

WASHINGTON (Army News Service, Dec. 9, 2008) -- The Defense Language Institute has developed a "Headstart" program to help deploying troops gain skills in Arabic, Pashto and Dari -- languages spoken ...

Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on Reddit Share on LinkedIn Share via Email PRESIDIO OF MONTEREY, Calif. -- The Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center graduates world-class ...

IT'S a curious fact about the Arabic language that it has no pronoun for "she", nor for "he": the same pronoun is used for both. I'll hold off on my own speculation for now. Can you think of anything ...