Countries
Afganistan, Iran, Tajikistan
  
Cyprus, European Union, Greece
  
National Language
Afganistan, Azerbaijan, Iran, Iraq, Russia, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan
  
Albania, Cyprus, Egypt, France, Greece, Italy, Romania, Turkey, Ukraine
  
Second Language
Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka
  
Roman Empire
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Asia, Europe
  
Minority Language
Bahrain, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates
  
Albania, Armenia, Australia, Hungary, Italy, Romania, Turkey, Ukraine
  
Regulated By
Academy of Persian Language and Literature (فرهنگستان زبان و اد, Academy of Sciences of Afghanistan
  
Center for the Greek language (Κέντρον Ελληνικής Γλώσσας)
  
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.
  
- Greek is the longest documented language of all the Indo-European Langauges.
- The official language of education in the Roman Empire was Greek.
  
Similar To
Pashto and Balochi Languages
  
Armenian
  
Derived From
Arabic Language
  
Latin
  
Alphabets in
Persian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Greek-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Arabic
  
Arabic, Latin
  
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
سلام
  
γεια σας (geia sas)
  
Thank You
متشکرم
  
ευχαριστώ (ef̱charistó̱)
  
How Are You?
چطور هستید?
  
πώς είσαι (pó̱s eísai)
  
Good Night
شب بخیر
  
Καληνυχτα (Kali̱nychta)
  
Good Evening
عصر بخیر
  
καλησπέρα (kali̱spéra)
  
Good Afternoon
بعد از ظهر بخیر
  
Καλὸ ἀπόγευμα (Kaló apóyevma)
  
Good Morning
صبح به خیر
  
καλημέρα (kali̱méra)
  
Please
لطفا
  
παρακαλώ (parakaló̱)
  
Sorry
متاسف
  
συγνώμη (sygnó̱mi̱)
  
Bye
خدا حافظ
  
αντίο (antío)
  
I Love You
من شما را دوست دارم
  
Σε αγαπώ (Se agapó̱)
  
Excuse Me
ببخشيد!
  
Με συγχωρείτε! (Me synhoríte)
  
Dialect 1
Western Persian
  
Cappadocian Greek
  
Where They Speak
Iran, Iraq
  
Greece
  
How Many People Speak
47,000,000.00
  
7
Dialect 2
Dari Persian
  
Griko
  
Where They Speak
Afganistan
  
Italy
  
How Many People Speak
12,500,000.00
  
7
Dialect 3
Tajik Persian
  
Mariupol
  
Where They Speak
Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan
  
Ukraine
  
How Many People Speak
7,900,000.00
  
6
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
65.00 million
  
26
13.00 million
  
99+
Native Speakers
65.00 million
  
17
13.00 million
  
99+
Native Name
فارسی
  
ελληνικά
  
Alternative Names
New Persian, Parsi, Persian, West Persian
  
Ellinika, Graecae, Grec, Greco, Neo-Hellenic, Romaic
  
French Name
persan
  
grec moderne (après 1453)
  
German Name
Persisch
  
Neugriechisch
  
Pronunciation
[fɒːɾˈsiː]
  
[eliniˈka]
  
Ethnicity
Persian people
  
Greeks or Hellenes
  
Origin
1500 BC
  
1500 BC
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
  
Hellenic
  
Branch
Iranian
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old Persian and Middle Persian
  
Proto-Greek, Mycenaean Greek, Ancient Greek, Koine Greek and Medieval Greek
  
Standard Forms
Persian
  
Modern Greek
  
Signed Forms
Persian Sign Language
  
Greek Sign Language
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
fa
  
el
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
fas
  
ell
  
ISO 639 2/B
per
  
gre
  
ISO 639 3
pes
  
ell
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
ells
  
Glottocode
fars1254
  
gree1276
  
Linguasphere
58-AAC-c
  
56-AAA-a
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
  
Fusional, Synthetic