Countries
Countries
Afganistan, Iran, Tajikistan
Macedonia
Total No. Of Countries
3
12
1
14
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
Alphabets in
Persian-Alphabets.jpg#200
Macedonian-Alphabets.jpg#200
Alphabets
32
14
31
13
Phonology
How Many Vowels
6
3
5
2
How Many Consonants
23
13
26
16
Scripts
Arabic
Cyrillic, Macedonian Braille
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Not Available
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
6
5
3
2
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks
11
44 weeks
11
Greetings
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)
Dialects
Dialect 1
Western Persian
Torlakian
Where They Speak
Iran, Iraq
Bulgaria, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia
How Many People Speak
47,000,000.00
7
1.50
99+
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
Total No. Of Dialects
12
12
28
23
How Many People Speak
How Many People Speak?
65.00 million
26
2.50 million
99+
Speaking Population
0.99 %
20
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
History
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
23
19
Not Available
Signed Forms
Persian Sign Language
Macedonian Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
Code
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
