Editing Afghans (section)

===Variations===
The term ''Afghani'' refers to the unit of [[Afghan afghani|Afghan currency]]. The term is also often used in the English language (and appears in some dictionaries) for a person or thing related to Afghanistan, although some have expressed the opinion that this usage is incorrect.<ref>{{cite web |date=October 4, 2001 |title=Chatterbox: More on 'Afghani' |url=http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/chatterbox/2001/10/more_on_afghani.html |access-date=March 29, 2013 |website=[[Slate.com|Slate]]}}</ref> The reason for this usage might be because the term "Afghani" (افغانی) is in fact a valid demonym for Afghans in the overall [[Persian language]], whereas "Afghan" is derived from Pashto. Thus, "Afghan" is the [[Anglicisation|anglicized]] form of "Afghani" when translating from Dari Persian, but not from Pashto.<ref>{{cite web |date=December 2, 2001 |title=Afghan vs. Afghani, Part 3 |url=https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2001/12/afghan-vs-afghani-part-3.html |access-date=October 1, 2021 |website=[[Slate.com|Slate]]}}</ref> Another variant is ''Afghanese'', which has been seldom used in place of Afghan.<ref>{{cite book |author=George Newenham Wright |title=A New and Comprehensive Gazetteer, Volume 3 |year=1836}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://digmichnews.cmich.edu/?a=d&d=VanBurenTN18781018-01.1.7&e=-------en-10--1--txt-txIN----------|title=True Northerner 18 October 1878 — Digital Michigan Newspapers Collection|website=digmichnews.cmich.edu|accessdate=11 February 2024}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=30 October 2017 |title=Beauty is the quiet of the self forgotten |url=https://jkrishnamurti.org/content/beauty-quiet-self-forgotten}}</ref>