Country Info

Afghanistan Languages

Below you can see all the written languages used in this country. View All Countries for the list of all world countries, or All Languages for all the written languages of the world.

There are 9,589,069 people (28% of Afghanistan) that can read or write at least one language.

10 Writing Systems used in Afghanistan

Persian (Arabic)

fa-arab
language code
17,062,400
people

Pashto (Arabic)

ps-arab
language code
14,673,664
people

Hazaragi (Arabic)

haz-arab
language code
2,013,363
people

Uzbek (Arabic)

uz-arab
language code
1,603,865
people

Turkmen (Latin)

tk-latn
language code
580,121
people

Parsi-Dari (Arabic)

prd-arab
language code
409,497
people

Baluchi (Arabic)

bal-arab
language code
228,636
people

Western Balochi (Arabic)

bgn-arab
language code
214,986
people

Uyghur (Arabic)

ug-arab
language code
3,002
people

Kazakh (Arabic)

kk-arab
language code
2,013
people

References

Our data is sourced from a number of places. We use ISO639 codes for the country codes. The language code we are showing is non-standard and combines the language short name with the script shortname. The population numbers, country names and script names come from the Unicode CLDR dataset.

  1. Unicode CLDR