Countries
Indonesia
  
Afganistan, Iran, Tajikistan
  
National Language
Indonesia
  
Afganistan, Azerbaijan, Iran, Iraq, Russia, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan
  
Second Language
East Timor, Indonesia
  
Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Denmark, East Timor, Netherlands
  
Bahrain, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates
  
Regulated By
Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa
  
Academy of Persian Language and Literature (فرهنگستان زبان و اد, Academy of Sciences of Afghanistan
  
Interesting Facts
- The modern Indonesian language uses many loan words from Persian, Chinese and Arabic.
- In Indonesian language, spelling is phonetically precise, so that words are spelled as they sound.
  
- 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
Malay language
  
Pashto and Balochi Languages
  
Derived From
Malay and Dutch Languages
  
Arabic Language
  
Alphabets in
Indonesian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Persian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Arabic
  
Writing Direction
Not Available
  
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Halo
  
سلام
  
Thank You
Terima kasih
  
متشکرم
  
How Are You?
Apa kabar?
  
چطور هستید?
  
Good Night
Selamat Malam
  
شب بخیر
  
Good Evening
Malam yang baik
  
عصر بخیر
  
Good Afternoon
Selamat Sore
  
بعد از ظهر بخیر
  
Good Morning
Selamat Pagi
  
صبح به خیر
  
Please
mohon Untuk
  
لطفا
  
Sorry
maaf
  
متاسف
  
Bye
Selamat tinggal
  
خدا حافظ
  
I Love You
Aku cinta kamu
  
من شما را دوست دارم
  
Excuse Me
Permisi
  
ببخشيد!
  
Dialect 1
Sundanese
  
Western Persian
  
Where They Speak
Indonesia
  
Iran, Iraq
  
How Many People Speak
38,000,000.00
  
8
47,000,000.00
  
7
Dialect 2
Balinese
  
Dari Persian
  
Where They Speak
Bali, Indonesia, Lombok and Java, Nusa Penida
  
Afganistan
  
How Many People Speak
3,300,000.00
  
17
12,500,000.00
  
7
Dialect 3
Minangkabau
  
Tajik Persian
  
Where They Speak
Indonesia, Malaysia
  
Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan
  
How Many People Speak
6,000,000.00
  
7
7,900,000.00
  
6
How Many People Speak?
163.00 million
  
11
65.00 million
  
26
Native Speakers
23.00 million
  
34
65.00 million
  
17
Second Language Speakers
140.00 million
  
4
Not Available
  
Native Name
Bahasa Melayu
  
فارسی
  
Alternative Names
Bahasa Indonesia
  
New Persian, Parsi, Persian, West Persian
  
French Name
indonésien
  
persan
  
German Name
Bahasa Indonesia
  
Persisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
[fɒːɾˈsiː]
  
Ethnicity
Indonesians
  
Persian people
  
Origin
7th Century
  
1500 BC
  
Language Family
Austronesian Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Indonesian
  
Indo-Iranian
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Iranian
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old Malay
  
Old Persian and Middle Persian
  
Standard Forms
Indonesian
  
Persian
  
Signed Forms
Sistem Isyarat Bahasa Indonesia (SIBI, "Signed Indonesian")
  
Persian Sign Language
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
id
  
fa
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
ind
  
fas
  
ISO 639 2/B
ind
  
per
  
ISO 639 3
ind
  
pes
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
indo1316
  
fars1254
  
Linguasphere
No data available
  
58-AAC-c
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
  
Synthetic
  
Indonesian and Persian Greetings
People around the world use different languages to interact with each other. Even if we cannot communicate fluently in any language, it will always be beneficial to know about some of the common greetings or phrases from that language. This is where Indonesian and Persian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Indonesian and Persian language. Indonesian word for "Hello" is Halo or Persian word for "Thank You" is متشکرم. Find more of such common Indonesian Greetings and Persian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Indonesian vs Persian Difficulty
The Indonesian vs Persian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Indonesian Alphabets and Persian Alphabets. Also the number of vowels and consonants in the language plays an important role in deciding the difficulty level of that language. The important points to be considered when we compare Indonesian and Persian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Indonesian and Persian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Indonesian is 36 weeks while to learn Persian time required is 44 weeks.