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Languages of Afghanistan

The Linguasphere Register records 5 entries for Afghanistan, spread across 3 of its ten sectors. Each row below links to the Register entry, where the sets, chains and individual languages underneath it can be opened.

5Register entries
3Sectors present
4Zones
0Language entries

1= AFRO-ASIAN 4= EURASIA 5= INDO-EUROPEAN

Register entries recorded in Afghanistan

CodeEntryLevelNote
12=SEMITICZoneCovers the "Semitic" or ’Aramita + Amarinya set, part of the "Afro-Asiatic" or "Hamito-Semitic" intercontinental …
44=CENTRAL-EURASIAZoneCovers the "Turkic + Manchurian" or "Altaic" reference area and hypothesis, part of the "wider Altaic" hypothesis (with …
58-AAC-ckefirozhohiVariety
58=IRANICZoneCovers the "Iranian" or Farsi + Pashto set, part of the "Indo-Iranian" grouping within the "Indo-European …
59=INDICZoneCovers the "Indic", "Indo-Aryan" or Hindi + Domari set of languages, part of the "Indo-Iranian" grouping within the …

Country placements come from the geographic data published with the Linguasphere Register. They mark where a speech community is recorded, not where a language is official. See sources and attribution.