Countries
Afganistan, Iran, Tajikistan
  
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
  
National Language
Afganistan, Azerbaijan, Iran, Iraq, Russia, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan
  
China, Taiwan
  
Second Language
Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka
  
Republic of Brazil
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Bahrain, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates
  
Indonesia, Malaysia
  
Regulated By
Academy of Persian Language and Literature (فرهنگستان زبان و اد, Academy of Sciences of Afghanistan
  
Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin Council
  
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.
  
- Chinese language is tonal, since meaning of a word changes according to its tone.
- In Chinese language, there is no grammatical distinction between singular or plural, no declination of verbs according to tense, mood and aspect.
  
Similar To
Pashto and Balochi Languages
  
Not Available
  
Derived From
Arabic Language
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
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Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Arabic
  
Chinese Characters and derivatives
  
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
سلام
  
您好 (Nín hǎo)
  
Thank You
متشکرم
  
谢谢 (Xièxiè)
  
How Are You?
چطور هستید?
  
你好吗? (Nǐ hǎo ma?)
  
Good Night
شب بخیر
  
晚安 (Wǎn'ān)
  
Good Evening
عصر بخیر
  
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
  
Good Afternoon
بعد از ظهر بخیر
  
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)
  
Good Morning
صبح به خیر
  
早安 (Zǎo ān)
  
Please
لطفا
  
请 (Qǐng)
  
Sorry
متاسف
  
遗憾 (Yíhàn)
  
Bye
خدا حافظ
  
再见 (Zàijiàn)
  
I Love You
من شما را دوست دارم
  
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)
  
Excuse Me
ببخشيد!
  
劳驾 (Láojià)
  
Dialect 1
Western Persian
  
Mandarin
  
Where They Speak
Iran, Iraq
  
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
  
How Many People Speak
47,000,000.00
  
7
960,000,000.00
  
1
Dialect 2
Dari Persian
  
Wu
  
Where They Speak
Afganistan
  
China, United States of America
  
How Many People Speak
12,500,000.00
  
7
80,000,000.00
  
1
Dialect 3
Tajik Persian
  
Yue
  
Where They Speak
Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan
  
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
  
How Many People Speak
7,900,000.00
  
6
60,000,000.00
  
2
How Many People Speak?
65.00 million
  
26
1,051.00 million
  
2
Native Speakers
65.00 million
  
17
873.00 million
  
1
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
178.00 million
  
3
Native Name
فارسی
  
中文 (zhōngwén)
  
Alternative Names
New Persian, Parsi, Persian, West Persian
  
Not Available
  
French Name
persan
  
chinois
  
German Name
Persisch
  
Chinesisch
  
Pronunciation
[fɒːɾˈsiː]
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Persian people
  
Han
  
Origin
1500 BC
  
1250 BC
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Sino-Tibetan Family
  
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
  
Not Available
  
Branch
Iranian
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old Persian and Middle Persian
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Persian
  
Standard Chinese
  
Signed Forms
Persian Sign Language
  
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
fa
  
zh
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
fas
  
zho
  
ISO 639 2/B
per
  
chi
  
ISO 639 3
pes
  
zho
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
fars1254
  
sini1245
  
Linguasphere
58-AAC-c
  
79-AAA
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
  
Analytic, Isolating