Countries
Afganistan, Iran, Tajikistan
  
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Serbia, Slovakia
  
National Language
Afganistan, Azerbaijan, Iran, Iraq, Russia, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan
  
Bosnia, Croatia, Montenegro, 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
  
Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Macedonia, Montenegro, Romania, Slovakia
  
Regulated By
Academy of Persian Language and Literature (فرهنگستان زبان و اد, Academy of Sciences of Afghanistan
  
Board for Standardization of the Serbian Language
  
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.
  
- Serbian language was derived from the Old Church Salvic, as the language was commonly spoken by most of Slavic people in the 9th Century.
- Serbian language is based on Stokavian dialect.
  
Similar To
Pashto and Balochi Languages
  
Bosnian and Croatian Languages
  
Derived From
Arabic Language
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Persian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Serbian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Arabic
  
Cyrillic, Latin
  
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
سلام
  
Здраво (Zdravo)
  
Thank You
متشکرم
  
Хвала лепо (Hvala lepo)
  
How Are You?
چطور هستید?
  
Како си? (Kako si?)
  
Good Night
شب بخیر
  
Лаку ноћ (Laku noć)
  
Good Evening
عصر بخیر
  
Добро вече (Dobro veče)
  
Good Afternoon
بعد از ظهر بخیر
  
Добар дан (Dobar dan)
  
Good Morning
صبح به خیر
  
Добро јутро (Dobro jutro)
  
Please
لطفا
  
Молим (Molim)
  
Sorry
متاسف
  
Жао ми је (Žao mi je)
  
Bye
خدا حافظ
  
Довиђења (Doviđenja)
  
I Love You
من شما را دوست دارم
  
Волим те (Volim te)
  
Excuse Me
ببخشيد!
  
Извините (Izvinite)
  
Dialect 1
Western Persian
  
Prizren-Timok
  
Where They Speak
Iran, Iraq
  
Southeastern Serbia
  
How Many People Speak
47,000,000.00
  
7
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Dari Persian
  
Smederevo–Vršac
  
Where They Speak
Afganistan
  
Serbia
  
How Many People Speak
12,500,000.00
  
7
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Tajik Persian
  
Torlakian
  
Where They Speak
Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan
  
Bulgaria, France, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia
  
How Many People Speak
7,900,000.00
  
6
1,500,000.00
  
17
How Many People Speak?
65.00 million
  
26
8.70 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
65.00 million
  
17
8.70 million
  
99+
Native Name
فارسی
  
српски (srpski) српски језик (srpski jezik)
  
Alternative Names
New Persian, Parsi, Persian, West Persian
  
Montenegrin
  
French Name
persan
  
serbe
  
German Name
Persisch
  
Serbisch
  
Pronunciation
[fɒːɾˈsiː]
  
[sr̩̂pskiː]
  
Ethnicity
Persian people
  
Serbs
  
Origin
1500 BC
  
11th Century
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
  
Not Available
  
Branch
Iranian
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old Persian and Middle Persian
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Persian
  
Standard Serbian
  
Signed Forms
Persian Sign Language
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
fa
  
sr
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
fas
  
srp
  
ISO 639 2/B
per
  
srp
  
ISO 639 3
pes
  
srp
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
fars1254
  
serb1264
  
Linguasphere
58-AAC-c
  
53-AAA-g
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
  
Not Available