How many people in Afghanistan speak Dari and Farsi?

The primary languages spoken in Afghanistan are Dari and Pashto. Dari is a dialect of Persian that is mostly spoken in urban areas and serves as the lingua franca, while Pashto is spoken by the country's largest ethnic group and is commonly used in the south and east.

According to Ethnologue, there are approximately 12 to 14 million speakers of Dari in Afghanistan, making it the most widely spoken language in the country. Pashto, on the other hand, has around 15 to 17 million speakers.