Countries
Afganistan, Iran, Tajikistan
  
India, Nepal
  
National Language
Afganistan, Azerbaijan, Iran, Iraq, Russia, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan
  
Nepal
  
Second Language
Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka
  
Republic of Brazil
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Bahrain, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates
  
People's Republic of China
  
Regulated By
Academy of Persian Language and Literature (فرهنگستان زبان و اد, Academy of Sciences of Afghanistan
  
Language Academy of Nepal
  
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.
  
- Before the term "Nepali" was coined, historically the language was first called the Khas language, Gorkhali or Gukhali.
- Nepali has borrowed many loanwords from neighboring Tibeto-Burmese languages.
  
Similar To
Pashto and Balochi Languages
  
Hindi
  
Derived From
Arabic Language
  
Sanskrit Language
  
Alphabets in
Persian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Nepali-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Arabic
  
Devanagari
  
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
سلام
  
नमस्ते (namaste)
  
Thank You
متشکرم
  
धन्यवाद (dhanyabad)
  
How Are You?
چطور هستید?
  
तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)
  
Good Night
شب بخیر
  
शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)
  
Good Evening
عصر بخیر
  
शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)
  
Good Afternoon
بعد از ظهر بخیر
  
Good afternoon
  
Good Morning
صبح به خیر
  
शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)
  
Please
لطفا
  
कृपया
  
Sorry
متاسف
  
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
  
Bye
خدا حافظ
  
नमस्ते (namaste)
  
I Love You
من شما را دوست دارم
  
म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)
  
Excuse Me
ببخشيد!
  
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
  
Dialect 1
Western Persian
  
Doteli
  
Where They Speak
Iran, Iraq
  
Nepal
  
How Many People Speak
47,000,000.00
  
7
Dialect 2
Dari Persian
  
Bajhangi
  
Where They Speak
Afganistan
  
India, Nepal
  
How Many People Speak
12,500,000.00
  
7
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Tajik Persian
  
Baitadeli
  
Where They Speak
Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan
  
Nepal
  
How Many People Speak
7,900,000.00
  
6
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
65.00 million
  
26
30.00 million
  
36
Native Speakers
65.00 million
  
17
25.00 million
  
32
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
5.00 million
  
29
Native Name
فارسی
  
नेपाली (nēpālī)
  
Alternative Names
New Persian, Parsi, Persian, West Persian
  
Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate
  
French Name
persan
  
népalais
  
German Name
Persisch
  
Nepali
  
Pronunciation
[fɒːɾˈsiː]
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Persian people
  
Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu
  
Origin
1500 BC
  
19 BC
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
  
Indo-Iranian
  
Branch
Iranian
  
Indic
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old Persian and Middle Persian
  
Khas language, Gurkhali, Parbatiya, Dzongkha Lhotshammikha
  
Standard Forms
Persian
  
Nepali
  
Signed Forms
Persian Sign Language
  
Signed Nepali
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual, Macrolanguage
  
ISO 639 1
fa
  
ne
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
fas
  
nep
  
ISO 639 2/B
per
  
nep
  
ISO 639 3
pes
  
npi
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
fars1254
  
nepa1254
  
Linguasphere
58-AAC-c
  
12
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
  
Agglutinative