1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Afganistan, Iran, Tajikistan
Iraq, Kurdistan
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
Afganistan, Azerbaijan, Iran, Iraq, Russia, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Turkey
1.4 Second Language
Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
Bahrain, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.7 Regulated By
Academy of Persian Language and Literature (فرهنگستان زبان و اد, Academy of Sciences of Afghanistan
Not Available
1.8 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.
- The vocabulary in Kurdish is of Iranian origin.
- In the middle East, Kurdish is the fourth largest ethnic group.
1.9 Similar To
Pashto and Balochi Languages
Farsi Language
1.10 Derived From
Arabic Language
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2 Alphabets
2.1 Alphabets in
2.2 Alphabets
2.3 Phonology
2.3.1 How Many Vowels
2.3.2 How Many Consonants
2.4 Scripts
Arabic
Arabic, Cyrillic, Latin
2.5 Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
3.2 Thank You
3.3 How Are You?
3.4 Good Night
3.5 Good Evening
3.6 Good Afternoon
بعد از ظهر بخیر
Nee-wa-rowt bash
3.7 Good Morning
3.8 Please
3.9 Sorry
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
من شما را دوست دارم
Ez te hez dikem
3.12 Excuse Me
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Western Persian
Northern Kurdish
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Iran, Iraq
northern Iraq, northern Syria, northwest Iran, southeast Turkey
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
47,000,000.0020,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
Dari Persian
Central Kurdish
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Afganistan
Iraq, Kurdistan Province of western Iran
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
12,500,000.005,000,000.00
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
Tajik Persian
Southern Kurdish
4.3.1 Where They Speak
Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan
Eastern Iraq
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
7,900,000.003,000,000.00
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
65.00 million28.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
65.00 million21.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.3.2 Native Name
فارسی
Kurdí / کوردی / к’öрди
5.3.3 Alternative Names
New Persian, Parsi, Persian, West Persian
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5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
5.5 Ethnicity
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Indo-Iranian
6.2.2 Branch
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
Old Persian and Middle Persian
Not Available
6.3.2 Standard Forms
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Persian Sign Language
Not Available
6.4 Scope
7 Code
7.1 ISO 639 1
7.2 ISO 639 2
7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
7.3 ISO 639 3
7.4 ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
7.5 Glottocode
7.6 Linguasphere
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Object-Verb
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology