摘要：This paper presents a sociolinguistic assessment of the Darw¨¡zi speech varieties (including Tangshewi) based on data collected during a survey conducted between August 31st and September 19th 2008 in the Darw¨¡z area. The research was carried out under the auspices of the International Assistance Mission, a Non-Governmental Organization working in Afghanistan. The goal was to determine whether Dari, one of the two national languages, is adequate to be used in literature and primary school education, or whether the Darw¨¡zi people would benefit from language development, including literature development and primary school education in the vernacular.The researchers administered sociolinguistic group questionnaires to groups of men and women, as well as questionnaires to village elders, elicited word lists and tested and observed intelligibility of Dari. In this way we aimed to determine the domains of language use, the peoples' attitudes towards their own speech variety and Dari, and to investigate intelligibility of Dari
