Countries
Afganistan, Iran, Tajikistan
  
Georgia
  
National Language
Afganistan, Azerbaijan, Iran, Iraq, Russia, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan
  
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Israel, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine, United States of America
  
Second Language
Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Asia, Europe
  
Minority Language
Bahrain, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Regulated By
Academy of Persian Language and Literature (فرهنگستان زبان و اد, Academy of Sciences of Afghanistan
  
Cabinet of Georgia
  
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.
  
- Georgian language has borrowed many words from Arabic, Persian and Turkish languages.
- Georgian language does not distinguish between 'he/him', 'she/her' and 'it', only masculine form is used.
  
Similar To
Pashto and Balochi Languages
  
Not Available
  
Derived From
Arabic Language
  
Anatolian Languages
  
Alphabets in
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Georgian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Arabic
  
Arabic, Georgian script
  
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
سلام
  
გამარჯობა (gamarjoba)
  
Thank You
متشکرم
  
გმადლობთ (gmadlobt)
  
How Are You?
چطور هستید?
  
როგორა ხარ? (rogora khar?)
  
Good Night
شب بخیر
  
ძილი ნებისა (dzili nebisa)
  
Good Evening
عصر بخیر
  
საღამო მშვიდობისა (saghamo mshvidobisa)
  
Good Afternoon
بعد از ظهر بخیر
  
დილა მშვიდობისა (dila mshvidobisa)
  
Good Morning
صبح به خیر
  
დილა მშვიდობისა (dila mshvidobisa)
  
Please
لطفا
  
გთხოვთ (gt’khovt’)
  
Sorry
متاسف
  
ბოდიში (bodishi)
  
Bye
خدا حافظ
  
ნახვამდის (nakhvamdis)
  
I Love You
من شما را دوست دارم
  
მე შენ მიყვარხარ (me shen miq’varkhar)
  
Excuse Me
ببخشيد!
  
უკაცრავად (uk’atsravad)
  
Dialect 1
Western Persian
  
Judaeo-Georgian
  
Where They Speak
Iran, Iraq
  
Belgium, Georgia, Israel, Russia, United States of America
  
How Many People Speak
47,000,000.00
  
7
Dialect 2
Dari Persian
  
Kartlian
  
Where They Speak
Afganistan
  
Kartli
  
How Many People Speak
12,500,000.00
  
7
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Tajik Persian
  
Pshavian
  
Where They Speak
Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan
  
Pshavi
  
How Many People Speak
7,900,000.00
  
6
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
65.00 million
  
26
4.30 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
65.00 million
  
17
4.30 million
  
99+
Native Name
فارسی
  
ქართული ენა
  
Alternative Names
New Persian, Parsi, Persian, West Persian
  
Common Kartvelian, Gruzinski, Kartuli
  
French Name
persan
  
géorgien
  
German Name
Persisch
  
Georgisch
  
Pronunciation
[fɒːɾˈsiː]
  
[kʰɑrtʰuli ɛnɑ]
  
Ethnicity
Persian people
  
Georgians
  
Origin
1500 BC
  
5th Century
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Kartvelian Family
  
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
  
Southern
  
Branch
Iranian
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old Persian and Middle Persian
  
Old Georgian, Classical Old Georgian, Middle Georgian
  
Standard Forms
Persian
  
Modern Georgian
  
Signed Forms
Persian Sign Language
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Not Available
  
ISO 639 1
fa
  
ka
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
fas
  
kat
  
ISO 639 2/B
per
  
geo
  
ISO 639 3
pes
  
kat
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
fars1254
  
nucl1302
  
Linguasphere
58-AAC-c
  
No data available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Not Available
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
  
Agglutinative, Synthetic