Countries
Afganistan, Iran, Tajikistan
  
Nigeria
  
National Language
Afganistan, Azerbaijan, Iran, Iraq, Russia, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan
  
Nigeria
  
Second Language
Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Africa
  
Minority Language
Bahrain, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates
  
Equatorial Guinea
  
Regulated By
Academy of Persian Language and Literature (فرهنگستان زبان و اد, Academy of Sciences of Afghanistan
  
Society for Promoting Igbo Language and Culture
  
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.
  
- In Igbo, there is complicated system of high and low tones indicating differences in meaning and grammatical relationships.
- Igbo has inexhaustible and rich linguistic features like idioms, proverbs, aphorisms, anecdotes etc.
  
Similar To
Pashto and Balochi Languages
  
Not Available
  
Derived From
Arabic Language
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Persian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Igbo-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Arabic
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
سلام
  
kedụ
  
Thank You
متشکرم
  
dalụ
  
How Are You?
چطور هستید?
  
kedụ ka ịmere
  
Good Night
شب بخیر
  
ka chi fo
  
Good Evening
عصر بخیر
  
mgbede ọma
  
Good Afternoon
بعد از ظهر بخیر
  
ehihie ọma
  
Good Morning
صبح به خیر
  
ụtụtụ ọma
  
Please
لطفا
  
Biko
  
Sorry
متاسف
  
Ndo
  
Bye
خدا حافظ
  
Not Available
  
I Love You
من شما را دوست دارم
  
a hụrụ m gị n'anya
  
Excuse Me
ببخشيد!
  
ngọpụ
  
Dialect 1
Western Persian
  
Enuani
  
Where They Speak
Iran, Iraq
  
Nigeria
  
How Many People Speak
47,000,000.00
  
7
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Dari Persian
  
Ngwa
  
Where They Speak
Afganistan
  
Nigeria
  
How Many People Speak
12,500,000.00
  
7
1,500,000.00
  
22
Dialect 3
Tajik Persian
  
Not present
  
Where They Speak
Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan
  
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak
7,900,000.00
  
6
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
65.00 million
  
26
25.00 million
  
40
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
65.00 million
  
17
25.00 million
  
32
Native Name
فارسی
  
igbo
  
Alternative Names
New Persian, Parsi, Persian, West Persian
  
Ibo
  
French Name
persan
  
igbo
  
German Name
Persisch
  
Ibo-Sprache
  
Pronunciation
[fɒːɾˈsiː]
  
[iɡ͡boː]
  
Ethnicity
Persian people
  
Igbo people
  
Origin
1500 BC
  
30th Century BC
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Niger-Congo Family
  
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
  
Kwa
  
Branch
Iranian
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old Persian and Middle Persian
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Persian
  
Standard Igbo
  
Signed Forms
Persian Sign Language
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
fa
  
ig
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
fas
  
ibo
  
ISO 639 2/B
per
  
ibo
  
ISO 639 3
pes
  
ibo
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
fars1254
  
nucl1417
  
Linguasphere
58-AAC-c
  
No data available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
  
Agglutinative
  
Persian and Igbo Speaking population
Persian and Igbo speaking population is one of the factors based on which Persian and Igbo languages can be compared. The total count of Persian and Igbo Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Persian language is 0.99 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Igbo language is Not Available. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak Persian and Igbo on Persian vs Igbo where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Persian and Igbo Language Codes
Persian and Igbo language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Persian and Igbo Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.