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About Persian Language



Countries
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Countries
Afganistan, Iran, Tajikistan 0

Total No. Of Countries
3 12

National Language
Afganistan, Azerbaijan, Iran, Iraq, Russia, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan 0

Second Language
Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka 0

Speaking Continents
Asia 0

Minority Language
Bahrain, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates 0

Regulated By
Academy of Persian Language and Literature (فرهنگستان زبان و اد, Academy of Sciences of Afghanistan 0

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.
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Similar To
Pashto and Balochi Languages 0

Derived From
Arabic Language 0

Alphabets
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Alphabets in
Persian-Alphabets.jpg#200 0

Alphabets
32 14

Phonology
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How Many Vowels
6 3

How Many Consonants
23 13

Scripts
Arabic 0

Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal 0

Hard to Learn
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Language Levels
6 5

Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks 11

Greetings
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Hello
سلام 0

Thank You
متشکرم 0

How Are You?
چطور هستید? 0

Good Night
شب بخیر 0

Good Evening
عصر بخیر 0

Good Afternoon
بعد از ظهر بخیر 0

Good Morning
صبح به خیر 0

Please
لطفا 0

Sorry
متاسف 0

Bye
خدا حافظ 0

I Love You
من شما را دوست دارم 0

Excuse Me
ببخشيد! 0

Dialects
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Dialect 1
Western Persian 0

Where They Speak
Iran, Iraq 0

How Many People Speak
47,000,000.00 7

Dialect 2
Dari Persian 0

Where They Speak
Afganistan 0

How Many People Speak
12,500,000.00 7

Dialect 3
Tajik Persian 0

Where They Speak
Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan 0

How Many People Speak
7,900,000.00 6

Total No. Of Dialects
12 12

How Many People Speak
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How Many People Speak?
65.00 million 26

Speaking Population
0.99 % 20

Native Speakers
65.00 million 17

Second Language Speakers
Not Available 0

Native Name
فارسی 0

Alternative Names
New Persian, Parsi, Persian, West Persian 0

French Name
persan 0

German Name
Persisch 0

Pronunciation
[fɒːɾˈsiː] 0

Ethnicity
Persian people 0

History
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Origin
1500 BC 0

Language Family
Indo-European Family 0

Subgroup
Indo-Iranian 0

Branch
Iranian 0

Language Forms
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Early Forms
Old Persian and Middle Persian 0

Standard Forms
Persian 0

Language Position
23 19

Signed Forms
Persian Sign Language 0

Scope
Individual 0

Code
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ISO 639 1
fa 0

ISO 639 2
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ISO 639 2/T
fas 0

ISO 639 2/B
per 0

ISO 639 3
pes 0

ISO 639 6
Not Available 0

Glottocode
fars1254 0

Linguasphere
58-AAC-c 0

Types of Language
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Language Type
Living 0

Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb 0

Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic 0

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Know Alphabets in Persian

When you start learning to write in any language the Alphabets form a skeleton of any language. Let's talk About Persian Language, where you will learn the number of letter in Persian Alphabets. Every language has its own set of alphabets or characters so it is necessary to know alphabets in Persian. Persian phonology gives Persian vowels and Persian consonants. There are 6 vowels and 23 consonants in Persian language. Based upon the number of alphabet, vowels and consonants in the language we can check if Persian is one of the Most Difficult Languages. All about Persian language is given in detail in this section.

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All Persian countries

Want to explore all Persian countries? About Persian language serves you with all Persian Speaking Countries. Countries that use Persian as official language are called as Persian countries.

  • Countries that use Persian as their National Language are: Afganistan, Azerbaijan, Iran, Iraq, Russia, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan.

Second language indicates to any language which the person learns in addition to first or native language.

  • Countries that use Persian as second language are: Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka.

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Learn Persian greetings

Languages are used by every human being to communicate. And communication begins with the greetings. First step to form any interaction is to learn Persian Greetings. Whenever you are travelling to new country where in you don’t know the local language of that country then you should at least be familiar with some greetings to start any formal or informal conversion. When we talk about Persian language, we are always interested in learning useful phrases in Persian language.Learn Persian greetings that can be used in formal situations:

  • Hello: سلام
  • Thank you: متشکرم
  • Good Morning: صبح به خیر
  • Good Evening: عصر بخیر
  • Good Afternoon: بعد از ظهر بخیر

All Persian Language Codes

Get to know all Persian language codes here. There are several languages spoken all over the world where in most of the languages have alternate names which come from diverse sources. All Persian Language Codes are assigned with unique code. There is usually two or three letters code for each language. In most of the applications, these language codes are used where it is tedious to use language names.

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