Native Name: Dari
Number of Speakers: 7 million
Official language of: Afghanistan
Script used: Perso-Arabic script
Sample of Dari
Dari Translation, Typesetting, Websites, Voice-Overs and Subtitles
Adelphi Translations Ltd. work translating Dari to English and English to Dari. We also produce voice recordings and subtitles for video in Dari as well as translation and localization of web sites into Dari. We are based in Sheffield, UK and handle language projects for local clients in commercial centres such as Leeds, Manchester, Birmingham, Glasgow and London but also have many International clients from around the world.
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Dari translation and typesetting for G4S part of a multilingual project
At Adelphi we will try to accommodate whatever type of Dari voice-over you require. We will either send samples of artists we already have on our books, or search for and record new voices for you to choose from.
Dari is the the variety of Persian spoken in Afghanistan, where it is one of the two official languages and is used as a lingua franca among the different language communities. It is written in a modified Arabic alphabet, and it has many Arabic and Persian loanwords. About 5 million people speak Dari in Afghanistan. There are also about 2.5 million Dari speakers in the Iran and Pakistan. Pashto was declared the National Language of the Afghanistan in 1936, during the reign of Zahir Shah. However, Dari has always been used for business and government transactions.
There has been some debate as to the origin of the word “Dari.” Records left by early Islamic historians suggest that the term was adapted from the Persian word “Darbar” (“court”), which most likely refers to the court of the Sassanid Empire that reigned from the early-3rd to mid-6th centuries.
