Countries
Afganistan, Iran, Tajikistan
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
National Language
Afganistan, Azerbaijan, Iran, Iraq, Russia, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan
Russia
Second Language
Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka
Afganistan
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia, Europe
Minority Language
Bahrain, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Poland, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
Regulated By
Academy of Persian Language and Literature (فرهنگستان زبان و اد, Academy of Sciences of Afghanistan
Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
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 Russian language, the words are not pronounced as they are written.
- In Russian language, there are only 200,000 words out of which only few words are used and due to this many words have more than one meaning.
Similar To
Pashto and Balochi Languages
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
Derived From
Arabic Language
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
Alphabets in
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Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hello
سلام
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)
Thank You
متشکرم
спасибо(spasibo)
How Are You?
چطور هستید?
Как дела? (Kak dela?)
Good Night
شب بخیر
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
Good Evening
عصر بخیر
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
Good Afternoon
بعد از ظهر بخیر
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
Good Morning
صبح به خیر
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
Please
لطفا
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
Sorry
متاسف
Извините(Izvinite)
Bye
خدا حافظ
до свидания(do svidaniya)
I Love You
من شما را دوست دارم
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
Excuse Me
ببخشيد!
извините(izvinite)
Dialect 1
Western Persian
Doukhobor Russian
Where They Speak
Iran, Iraq
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
Dialect 2
Dari Persian
Olonets
Where They Speak
Afganistan
Olonets
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 3
Tajik Persian
Novgorod
Where They Speak
Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan
Novgorod
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
Native Name
فارسی
Русский
Alternative Names
New Persian, Parsi, Persian, West Persian
Russki
German Name
Persisch
Russisch
Pronunciation
[fɒːɾˈsiː]
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
Ethnicity
Persian people
Russians
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Slavic
Early Forms
Old Persian and Middle Persian
Old East Slavic
Standard Forms
Persian
Standard Russian
Signed Forms
Persian Sign Language
Signed Russian
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
Glottocode
fars1254
russ1263
Linguasphere
58-AAC-c
53-AAA-ea
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
Fusional, Synthetic
Persian and Russian Speaking population
Persian and Russian speaking population is one of the factors based on which Persian and Russian languages can be compared. The total count of Persian and Russian Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Persian language is 0.99 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Russian language is 2.33 %. 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 Russian on Persian vs Russian where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Persian and Russian Language Codes
Persian and Russian language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Persian and Russian Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.