Expert: A.H Amin - 6/28/2004

Question
Might seem to be an inane question but where or who does the word Afgan come from. The reason i ask this is that i have noticed that afganistan is made up of numerous ethnic groups, of which many have parent countries outside Afganistan( Tajik, Uzbek etc.)
Thank you for your cooperation

Answer
thanks for the mail.

afghanistan is essentially a geograpic term referring to the country between indus and oxus rivers , land of the afghans, all races living in afghanistan come under the term the afghan millat and they speak a common language dari , a type of persian ...i am in remote area , for more exact details please get hold of american anthropologist Louis Dupree's book "Afghanistan" , its available in all libraries .

best regards

A.H Amin
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