Countries
Barbados, Belize, Botswana, Cameroon, Canada, Dominica, Fiji, Ghana, India, Ireland, Jamaica, Kenya, Malta, Mauritius, Micronesia, Nigeria, Pakistan, Philippines, Rwanda, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Samoa, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Somaliland, South Africa, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, Trinidad and Tobago, Uganda, United Kingdom, Zambia, Zimbabwe
  
Afganistan, Iran, Tajikistan
  
National Language
Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bermuda, Cayman Islands, Gibraltar, Grenada, Guam, Guyana, Jersey, Montserrat, Nauru, Singapore, Trinidad and Tobago, United Kingdom, United States of America
  
Afganistan, Azerbaijan, Iran, Iraq, Russia, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan
  
Second Language
India, Nigeria, Pakistan, Singapore
  
Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka
  
Speaking Continents
Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America, Oceania, South America
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
South Africa
  
Bahrain, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates
  
Regulated By
Not Available
  
Academy of Persian Language and Literature (فرهنگستان زبان و اد, Academy of Sciences of Afghanistan
  
Interesting Facts
- Most of the English words begin with the letter S than any other letter.
- English is third most commonly spoken language in the world.
  
- 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.
  
Similar To
Not Available
  
Pashto and Balochi Languages
  
Derived From
Latin
  
Arabic Language
  
Alphabets in
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Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Arabic
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Hello
  
سلام
  
Thank You
Thank you
  
متشکرم
  
How Are You?
How are you?
  
چطور هستید?
  
Good Night
Good Night
  
شب بخیر
  
Good Evening
Good Evening
  
عصر بخیر
  
Good Afternoon
Good Afternoon
  
بعد از ظهر بخیر
  
Good Morning
Good Morning
  
صبح به خیر
  
Please
Please
  
لطفا
  
Sorry
Sorry
  
متاسف
  
Bye
Bye
  
خدا حافظ
  
I Love You
I love you
  
من شما را دوست دارم
  
Excuse Me
Excuse Me
  
ببخشيد!
  
Dialect 1
American English
  
Western Persian
  
Where They Speak
United States of America
  
Iran, Iraq
  
How Many People Speak
225,000,000.00
  
3
47,000,000.00
  
7
Dialect 2
Hiberno-English
  
Dari Persian
  
Where They Speak
Republic of Ireland, United Kingdom
  
Afganistan
  
How Many People Speak
4,500,000.00
  
15
12,500,000.00
  
7
Dialect 3
Welsh English
  
Tajik Persian
  
Where They Speak
United Kingdom
  
Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan
  
How Many People Speak
2,500,000.00
  
14
7,900,000.00
  
6
How Many People Speak?
1,200.00 million
  
1
65.00 million
  
26
Native Speakers
400.00 million
  
3
65.00 million
  
17
Second Language Speakers
400.00 million
  
1
Not Available
  
Native Name
English
  
فارسی
  
Alternative Names
Not Available
  
New Persian, Parsi, Persian, West Persian
  
French Name
anglais
  
persan
  
German Name
Englisch
  
Persisch
  
Pronunciation
/ˈɪŋɡlɪʃ/
  
[fɒːɾˈsiː]
  
Ethnicity
Not Available
  
Persian people
  
Origin
5th Century AD
  
1500 BC
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Indo-Iranian
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Iranian
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old English, Middle English, Early Modern English and English
  
Old Persian and Middle Persian
  
Standard Forms
Standard English
  
Persian
  
Signed Forms
Signed English
  
Persian Sign Language
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
en
  
fa
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
eng
  
fas
  
ISO 639 2/B
eng
  
per
  
ISO 639 3
eng
  
pes
  
ISO 639 6
engs
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
stan1293
  
fars1254
  
Linguasphere
52-ABA
  
58-AAC-c
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Fusional, Isolating, Synthetic
  
Synthetic