Countries
Ethiopia, Kenya
  
Afganistan, Iran, Tajikistan
  
National Language
Ethiopia
  
Afganistan, Azerbaijan, Iran, Iraq, Russia, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka
  
Speaking Continents
Africa
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Somalia
  
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
- Oromo language is the third most spoken language in Africa.
- Oromo is most spoken language in Cushitic Family.
  
- 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
Somali Language
  
Pashto and Balochi Languages
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Arabic Language
  
Alphabets in
Oromo-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Persian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Arabic
  
Writing Direction
Not Available
  
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Time Taken to Learn
Not Available
  
Hello
akkam
  
سلام
  
Thank You
Galatoomi
  
متشکرم
  
How Are You?
Attam jirta/jirtu?
  
چطور هستید?
  
Good Night
Nagayattii buli
  
شب بخیر
  
Good Evening
Akkam waarite
  
عصر بخیر
  
Good Afternoon
Attam oolte / ooltan
  
بعد از ظهر بخیر
  
Good Morning
Attam bulte/bultan
  
صبح به خیر
  
Please
Maaloo
  
لطفا
  
Sorry
naa dhiisi
  
متاسف
  
Bye
Nagayattii!
  
خدا حافظ
  
I Love You
Sin jaaladha
  
من شما را دوست دارم
  
Excuse Me
Maaloo na dabarsi
  
ببخشيد!
  
Dialect 1
Borana
  
Western Persian
  
Where They Speak
Ethiopia, Kenya
  
Iran, Iraq
  
How Many People Speak
4,000,000.00
  
19
47,000,000.00
  
7
Dialect 2
Orma
  
Dari Persian
  
Where They Speak
Kenya
  
Afganistan
  
How Many People Speak
12,500,000.00
  
7
Dialect 3
Wata
  
Tajik Persian
  
Where They Speak
Kenya
  
Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan
  
How Many People Speak
7,900,000.00
  
6
How Many People Speak?
25.00 million
  
40
65.00 million
  
26
Native Speakers
24.00 million
  
33
65.00 million
  
17
Native Name
Afaan Oromo
  
فارسی
  
Alternative Names
Afaan Oromoo
  
New Persian, Parsi, Persian, West Persian
  
French Name
galla
  
persan
  
German Name
Galla-Sprache
  
Persisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
[fɒːɾˈsiː]
  
Ethnicity
Oromos
  
Persian people
  
Origin
16
  
1500 BC
  
Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Cushitic
  
Indo-Iranian
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Iranian
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
Old Persian and Middle Persian
  
Standard Forms
Afaan Oromo
  
Persian
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Persian Sign Language
  
Scope
Macrolanguage
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
om
  
fa
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
orm
  
fas
  
ISO 639 2/B
orm
  
per
  
ISO 639 3
orm
  
pes
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
nucl1736
  
fars1254
  
Linguasphere
No data available
  
58-AAC-c
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Synthetic
  
Oromo 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 Oromo and Persian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Oromo and Persian language. Oromo word for "Hello" is akkam or Persian word for "Thank You" is متشکرم. Find more of such common Oromo Greetings and Persian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Oromo vs Persian Difficulty
The Oromo vs Persian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Oromo 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 Oromo and Persian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Oromo and Persian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Oromo is Not Available while to learn Persian time required is 44 weeks.