Countries
Afganistan, Iran, Tajikistan
  
Macedonia
  
National Language
Afganistan, Azerbaijan, Iran, Iraq, Russia, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan
  
Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia
  
Second Language
Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Europe
  
Minority Language
Bahrain, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates
  
Albania, Romania, Serbia
  
Regulated By
Academy of Persian Language and Literature (فرهنگستان زبان و اد, Academy of Sciences of Afghanistan
  
Macedonian Language Institute "Krste Misirkov"
  
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.
  
- There are plenty of loan words in Macedonian language from the Serbian, Bulgarian and Russian languages.
- The only Indo-European language that make use of the narrative mood is Macedonian language.
  
Similar To
Pashto and Balochi Languages
  
Bulgarian, Polish, Russian and Serbian Languages
  
Derived From
Arabic Language
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Persian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Macedonian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Arabic
  
Cyrillic, Macedonian Braille
  
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
سلام
  
Здраво (Zdravo)
  
Thank You
متشکرم
  
Благодарам (Blagodaram)
  
How Are You?
چطور هستید?
  
Како си? (Kako si?)
  
Good Night
شب بخیر
  
Добра ноќ (Dobra nok)
  
Good Evening
عصر بخیر
  
Добра вечер (Dobra večer)
  
Good Afternoon
بعد از ظهر بخیر
  
Добар ден (Dobar den)
  
Good Morning
صبح به خیر
  
Добро утро (Dobro utro)
  
Please
لطفا
  
Ве молиме (Ve molime)
  
Sorry
متاسف
  
жал (žal)
  
Bye
خدا حافظ
  
Чао (Čao)
  
I Love You
من شما را دوست دارم
  
Те сакам (Te sakam)
  
Excuse Me
ببخشيد!
  
Извинете ме (Izvinete me)
  
Dialect 1
Western Persian
  
Torlakian
  
Where They Speak
Iran, Iraq
  
Bulgaria, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia
  
How Many People Speak
47,000,000.00
  
7
Dialect 2
Dari Persian
  
Debar
  
Where They Speak
Afganistan
  
Macedonia
  
How Many People Speak
12,500,000.00
  
7
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Tajik Persian
  
Galičnik
  
Where They Speak
Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan
  
Macedonia
  
How Many People Speak
7,900,000.00
  
6
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
65.00 million
  
26
2.50 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
65.00 million
  
17
2.50 million
  
99+
Native Name
فارسی
  
македонски (Makedonski) македонски јазик (makedonski jazik)
  
Alternative Names
New Persian, Parsi, Persian, West Persian
  
Macedonian Slavic, Makedonski, Slavic
  
French Name
persan
  
macédonien
  
German Name
Persisch
  
Makedonisch
  
Pronunciation
[fɒːɾˈsiː]
  
[maˈkɛdɔnski ˈjazik]
  
Ethnicity
Persian people
  
Macedonians
  
Origin
1500 BC
  
2200 BC
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
  
Slavic
  
Branch
Iranian
  
Southern
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old Persian and Middle Persian
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Persian
  
Macedonian
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Persian Sign Language
  
Macedonian Sign Language
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
fa
  
mk
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
fas
  
mkd
  
ISO 639 2/B
per
  
mac
  
ISO 639 3
pes
  
mkd
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
fars1254
  
mace1250
  
Linguasphere
58-AAC-c
  
53-AAA-ha
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
  
Analytic