recently. This has come about in places where a colonial settler community had displaced the indigenous peoples and started using names in the settler language centuries ago, and more recent efforts have been made to use names in the indigenous language alongside the colonial names, as an act of reconciliation.

Afghanistan

In Afghanistan, the name 'Dari' replaced Persian (Farsi) to refer to the language spoken in the country after the 1964 constitution

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