Re: Is Afghanistan an artificial country???
I think this linguistic divide of sub-cultures is completely exaggerated. Indo-Aryan (or “Indic” derived from the word Indus) and Iranian are closely related sub-branches of the same family of language. Indo-Aryan and Iranian peoples share a great deal of common history, culture, etc. On the linguistic structure, refer to the following analysis:
**It is interesting that languages are related and have common origins.
Linguists classify them based on their commonalities. Indo-European
languages are one of the many distinct family of languages. Indo-
European languages can be further divided into the following branches:
- Albanian
- Armenian
- Baltic
- Celtic
- Germanic
- Greek
- Indo-Iranian
- Italic/Latin
- Slavic
The Indo-Iranian branch is further divided into Iranian (Persian,
Kurdish, Pashto, Baluchi, etc) and Indo-Aryan (Punjabi, Urdu,
Gujarati, Hindi, Sindhi, Kashmiri, etc) sub-branches.
Similarly, the Germanic branch is divided into Eastern, Northern
(Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, Icelandic, etc), and Western (English,
Frisian, German, etc) sub-branches.
In the same way, the Slavic branch is divided into Western (Czech,
Slovak, Polish, etc), Southern (Bulgarian, Macedonian, Serbian,
Croatian, etc), and Eastern (Belarusan, Russian, Urkrinian, etc) sub-
branches.
Other branches are also divided into sub-branches.
It is interesting to know that Indo-Iranian languages are the native
languages of 99% of Pakistanis, 65% of Iranians, 84% of Afghans, and
69% of Indians!**