Dari is one of the official languages of Afghanistan along with Pashto. It shares a long literary history both classical & modern with the Persian (Farsi) of Iran & the Tajik of Tajikistan but over the centuries the languages have been split by politics & geography. Dan is written in a modified form of the Arabic script but it has been transliterated here into the roman alphabet. This title contains a vast array of indispensable words supplying travellers & those working in Afghanistan with the resources needed to communicate effectively.