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An important step forward in Afghan Persian dialectology was the appearance of the Loghât-e Zabân-e Goftâri-ye Herât (A vocabulary of spoken Herati) by M. Fikrat. It primarily included nouns, adjectives, and verbs. A prominent place was given in it to terms denoting items of everyday life, articles of domestic utility, and traditional foods and agricultural terminology. A big advantage of the book was the differentiation between the specifically Herati (or Khorasani) dialectal words and the common Afghan Persian colloquial vocabulary. The study of the Herati dialect was later continued in the book Geratskiy Dialect Yazyka Dari Sovremennogo Afganistana (The Herati dialect of the Dari language of modern Afghanistan, mentioned earlier) and a series of articles by Y. Ioannesyan, among which are “Situating the Khorasani Dialects within the Persian-Dari-Tajiki Linguistic Continuum” (in English) and “Jâygâh-e Guyesh-e Harâti dar Miyân-e Guyeshhâ-ye Goruh-e Zabâni-ye Fârsi-Dari” (“The Position of the Herati Dialect within the Dialects of the Persian-Dari Linguistic [Continuum],” in Persian). Both articles are focused on placing the Khorasani group of dialects in its proper position on the basis of the recent studies, and accordingly, a correction of the existing classification of the dialects within the Persian-Dari-Tajiki linguistic continuum is suggested (in the former article).
The most recent significant contribution to studies in Afghan Persian has been the Encyclopædia Iranica article “Kāboli Persian” by A. (R.) Farhâdi and J. Perry.