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Taliban ban windows to stop women being seen inside homes
(www.newsweek.com)
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People in Afghanistan aren't Arabs; they're Afghans. They notably don't speak Arabic.
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My mistake. I legit thought they did.
Soooooooo, what do they speak?
from a quick glance at Wikipedia, the official languages are Dari and Pashto, spoken by 75% and 48% of the population respectively, but many other languages are also spoken
Arabic is only spoken by 1% of the Afghani population, which is less than English (6%)
To be clear, Dari and Pashto are considerably less prevalent than Arabic's global native speaker estimate you listed. Per Wikipedia, even:
Dari: ~31 million speakers worldwide (~0.38%), and the native tongue for ~50% of Afghanistan
Pashto: ~40 million speakers worldwide (~0.24%), and the native tongue for ~48% of Afghanistan
And, technically, the native speaker stat on a global scale for Arabic is closer to 3% (~310 million = ~4.61%), with English is nearer 4.61% (373 million). Technically. 🤓
Pretty sure they're talking about the Afghani population here
I included those stats as well. 🙇🏽♂️
The 1% Arabic and 6% English weren't global speakers but Afghani speakers.
They speak 7 different languages since they are separate groups and the country was drawn by foreign superpowers at the time. So not shaped by a common ethnicity or shared idea like other countries.