1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Afganistan, Iran, Tajikistan
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
Afganistan, Azerbaijan, Iran, Iraq, Russia, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan
1.4 Second Language
Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka
1.5 Speaking Continents
Asia
1.6 Minority Language
Bahrain, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates
1.7 Regulated By
Academy of Persian Language and Literature (فرهنگستان زبان و اد, Academy of Sciences of Afghanistan
1.8 Interesting Facts
- In Iran, Parsi language is known as Farsi, while in Afghanistan Persian language is known as Dari.
- Persian language has borrowed many loanwords from the Arabic language.
1.9 Similar To
Pashto and Balochi Languages
1.10 Derived From
Arabic Language
2 Alphabets
2.1 Alphabets in
2.2 Alphabets
2.3 Phonology
2.3.1 How Many Vowels
2.3.2 How Many Consonants
2.4 Scripts
Arabic
2.5 Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks
Rank: 11 (Overall) ▶
3
88
3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
سلام
3.2 Thank You
متشکرم
3.3 How Are You?
چطور هستید?
3.4 Good Night
شب بخیر
3.5 Good Evening
عصر بخیر
3.6 Good Afternoon
بعد از ظهر بخیر
3.7 Good Morning
صبح به خیر
3.8 Please
لطفا
3.9 Sorry
متاسف
3.10 Bye
خدا حافظ
3.11 I Love You
من شما را دوست دارم
3.12 Excuse Me
ببخشيد!
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Western Persian
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Iran, Iraq
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
47,000,000.00
Rank: 7 (Overall) ▶
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
Dari Persian
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Afganistan
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
12,500,000.00
Rank: 7 (Overall) ▶
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
Tajik Persian
4.3.1 Where They Speak
Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
7,900,000.00
Rank: 6 (Overall) ▶
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
65.00 million
Rank: 26 (Overall) ▶
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
0.99 %
Rank: 20 (Overall) ▶
0.11
89
5.3 Native Speakers
65.00 million
Rank: 17 (Overall) ▶
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall) ▶
0.01
400
5.3.2 Native Name
فارسی
5.3.3 Alternative Names
New Persian, Parsi, Persian, West Persian
5.3.4 French Name
persan
5.3.5 German Name
Persisch
5.4 Pronunciation
[fɒːɾˈsiː]
5.5 Ethnicity
Persian people
6 History
6.1 Origin
1500 BC
6.2 Language Family
Indo-European Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
6.2.2 Branch
Iranian
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
Old Persian and Middle Persian
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Persian
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Persian Sign Language
6.4 Scope
Individual
7 Code
7.1 ISO 639 1
fa
7.2 ISO 639 2
7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
fas
7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
per
7.3 ISO 639 3
pes
7.4 ISO 639 6
Not Available
7.5 Glottocode
fars1254
7.6 Linguasphere
58-AAC-c
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
Living
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic