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Yes you are technically right but then, Tajik language is also another dialect of Persian, yet it uses "language". In conclusion, I think if the majority of the speakers and their respective governmets refer to their dialects as "languages" then we should have no problem with it. Khestwol (talk) 05:02, 18 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Hypercorrection. Imagine being interested in languages, genuinely, and then attempting to force languages into boxes.
Dialect continuum#Persian briefly covers the specific point of Persian, Tajik and Dari. Forcing the English word, language/dialect/variety/accent, is just wrong. When I tell children to "watch your language", I certainly don't mean to that false precision.
@Simsala111: If we're speaking about what is spoken by the most remote peasants and mountaineers in Eastern Afghanistan, it differs more than 1000 years from standard Persian. 1000 years is too much. For instance, Romanian and Moldavian as one example, or Serbian, Montenegrin, Croatian and Bosnian seem not to differ at all. --95.24.62.202 (talk) 16:34, 21 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]
If that's what the sources say, fine; but there's something about the lede that bothers me. Lingusticially speaking, is Dari any less of an independent language than any of the Scandinavian languages? Norwegian could also be considered a "political term used for the various dialects of the Scandinavian language spoken in Norway". Or is spoken Dari and Farsi much more similar than spoken Norwegian and Danish? Ornilnas (talk) 07:20, 27 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]
I think what bothers me is the wording "political term". For example, the sources that support calling Serbo-Croatian a "language" ultimately rely largely on politics (see Declaration on the Common Language) rather than pure linguistics. I don't support inserting the wording "political term" into the article ledes on Norwegian or Serbo-Croatian, but is there a solid reason why we use it here? Ornilnas (talk) 07:38, 27 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]
@Ornilnas: Dari in Eastern Afghanistan is different, but are people in, say, Herat, actually speaking Dari? Or are they speaking a much more recent form of Persian brought by the Persians during, say, the 1860s Persian rule? --95.24.62.202 (talk) 16:23, 21 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]