Countries
Afganistan, Iran, Tajikistan
  
Ukraine
  
National Language
Afganistan, Azerbaijan, Iran, Iraq, Russia, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan
  
Ukraine
  
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
  
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia
  
Regulated By
Academy of Persian Language and Literature (فرهنگستان زبان و اد, Academy of Sciences of Afghanistan
  
National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine: Institute for the Ukrainian 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.
  
- Ukrainian Language is second most widespread among the Slavic languages after the Russian Language.
- Ukrainian Language is among the top three most melodious language in the world.
  
Similar To
Pashto and Balochi Languages
  
Russian and Belarusian Languages
  
Derived From
Arabic Language
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Persian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Ukrainian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Arabic
  
Cyrillic, Ukrainian Braille
  
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
سلام
  
Здравствуйте (Zdravstvuyte)
  
Thank You
متشکرم
  
Дякую (Dyakuyu)
  
How Are You?
چطور هستید?
  
Як ти поживаєш? (Jak ty požyvajesh?)
  
Good Night
شب بخیر
  
На добраніч (Na dobranič)
  
Good Evening
عصر بخیر
  
Доброго вечора (Dobroho večora)
  
Good Afternoon
بعد از ظهر بخیر
  
Доброго дня (Dobroho dnia)
  
Good Morning
صبح به خیر
  
Доброго ранку! (Dobroho ranku)
  
Please
لطفا
  
будь ласк
  
Sorry
متاسف
  
вибачте (vybachte)
  
Bye
خدا حافظ
  
до побачення (do pobachennya)
  
I Love You
من شما را دوست دارم
  
я тебе люблю (ya tebe lyublyu)
  
Excuse Me
ببخشيد!
  
Перепрошую! (Pereprošuju)
  
Dialect 1
Western Persian
  
Podillian
  
Where They Speak
Iran, Iraq
  
North Odessa Oblast, South Khmelnytskyi, South Vinnytsia
  
How Many People Speak
47,000,000.00
  
7
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Dari Persian
  
Volynian
  
Where They Speak
Afganistan
  
Rivne, Volyn
  
How Many People Speak
12,500,000.00
  
7
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Tajik Persian
  
Steppe
  
Where They Speak
Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan
  
South Ukraine, Southeastern Ukraine
  
How Many People Speak
7,900,000.00
  
6
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
65.00 million
  
26
39.00 million
  
32
Native Speakers
65.00 million
  
17
39.00 million
  
25
Native Name
فارسی
  
Українська (Ukrajins'ka)
  
Alternative Names
New Persian, Parsi, Persian, West Persian
  
Not Available
  
French Name
persan
  
ukrainien
  
German Name
Persisch
  
Ukrainisch
  
Pronunciation
[fɒːɾˈsiː]
  
[ukrɑˈjiɲsʲkɐ ˈmɔwɐ]
  
Ethnicity
Persian people
  
Ukrainians
  
Origin
1500 BC
  
1561
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
  
Slavic
  
Branch
Iranian
  
Eastern
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old Persian and Middle Persian
  
Old East Slavic, Ukrainian
  
Standard Forms
Persian
  
Modern Ukrainian
  
Signed Forms
Persian Sign Language
  
Ukrainian Sign Language
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
fa
  
uk
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
fas
  
ukr
  
ISO 639 2/B
per
  
ukr
  
ISO 639 3
pes
  
ukr
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
fars1254
  
ukra1253
  
Linguasphere
58-AAC-c
  
53-AAA-eda to 53-AAA-edq
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
  
Fusional, Synthetic