Editing Dari (section)

=== Dialect continuum ===
The dialects of Dari spoken in Northern, Central, and Eastern Afghanistan, for example in [[Kabul]], [[Mazar-i-Sharif|Mazar]], and [[Badakhshan Province|Badakhshan]], have distinct features compared to [[Farsi|Iranian Persian]]. However, the dialect of Dari spoken in Western Afghanistan stands in between the Afghan and Iranian Persian. For instance, the [[Herat]]i dialect shares vocabulary and phonology with both Afghan and Iranian Persian. Likewise, the dialect of Persian in Eastern Iran, for instance in [[Mashhad]], is quite similar to the Herati dialect of Afghanistan.