Hazaragi

Background

The Hazaragi SBS info seeker

Hazaragi is a dialect of the Persian language, more precisely a part of the Dari dialect (one of the main languages of Afghanistan). It is spoken by the Hazara people primarily in an area of central Afghanistan known as the Hazarajat, as well as other Hazara-populated areas of their native living ground of Afghanistan.

Victoria has the largest number of Afghanistan-born people in Australia with 9,946 followed by New South Wales (8,948), Western Australia (3,926) and South Australia (3,289).

The main languages spoken at home by Afghanistan-born people in Australia are:

Of the 28,018 Afghanistan-born who spoke a language other than English at home, 64.6 % spoke English very well or well, and 28.1 % spoke English not well or not at all.

*Data from Department of Social Services, Australia Government https://www.dss.gov.au