Farsi vs Dari vs Tajik vs Samarkandi (Persian Varieties)

The Persian language has many different accents and dialects, spoken primarily in Iran, Afghanistan, and Tajikistan, a significant percentage of the population in Uzbekistan, as well as by minorities who are native to other countries across Central Asia, the Middle East, South Asia, and the Caucasus. Although some people consider “Farsi“ to be the term for the Iranian variety, the fact is that “Farsi“ or “Parsi“ is the endonym for the Persian language, and the term is natively used to refer to the language among all Persian speakers, not only Iranians. The terms “Dari“ and “Tajik“ are more often used by non-Persian speakers than Persian speakers themselves, who, regardless of their country, use the endonym Farsi or Parsi when speaking their language. In this video, Leila will represent the Iranian variety, from Jahrom, in the Fars province, Seyed Reza will represent Dari, the variety spoken in Afghanistan, from Maidan Shar in the Maidan Wardak province,