Countries
Afganistan, Iran, Tajikistan
  
Vietnam
  
National Language
Afganistan, Azerbaijan, Iran, Iraq, Russia, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan
  
Vietnam
  
Second Language
Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka
  
Australia, East Asia, North America, Southeast Asia, Western Europe
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Bahrain, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates
  
Czech Republic
  
Regulated By
Academy of Persian Language and Literature (فرهنگستان زبان و اد, Academy of Sciences of Afghanistan
  
Not Available
  
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.
  
- The vocabulary of Vietnamese language is influenced by Chinese Language.
- The only language in East Asia that uses the Latin alphabet is Vietnamese.
  
Similar To
Pashto and Balochi Languages
  
Chinese Language
  
Derived From
Arabic Language
  
Chinese Language
  
Alphabets in
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Vietnamese-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Arabic
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
سلام
  
Xin chào
  
Thank You
متشکرم
  
Cam on
  
How Are You?
چطور هستید?
  
Bạn khỏe không?
  
Good Night
شب بخیر
  
Chúc ngủ ngon
  
Good Evening
عصر بخیر
  
Chào buổi tối
  
Good Afternoon
بعد از ظهر بخیر
  
Chào buổi trưa
  
Good Morning
صبح به خیر
  
Chào buổi sáng
  
Please
لطفا
  
xin vui lòng
  
Sorry
متاسف
  
Xin lỗi
  
Bye
خدا حافظ
  
Tạm biệt
  
I Love You
من شما را دوست دارم
  
tôi yêu bạn
  
Excuse Me
ببخشيد!
  
Xin loi
  
Dialect 1
Western Persian
  
Northern Vietnamese
  
Where They Speak
Iran, Iraq
  
Dong Bac, Haiphong, Hanoi, Red River Delta, Tay Bac
  
How Many People Speak
47,000,000.00
  
7
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Dari Persian
  
North-central Vietnamese
  
Where They Speak
Afganistan
  
Ha Tinh, Nghe An, Thanh Hoa
  
How Many People Speak
12,500,000.00
  
7
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Tajik Persian
  
Mid-Central Vietnamese
  
Where They Speak
Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan
  
Hue, Quang Tri, Thua Thien
  
How Many People Speak
7,900,000.00
  
6
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
65.00 million
  
26
91.00 million
  
16
Native Speakers
65.00 million
  
17
75.00 million
  
14
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
16.00 million
  
17
Native Name
فارسی
  
tiếng việt (㗂越)
  
Alternative Names
New Persian, Parsi, Persian, West Persian
  
Annamese, Ching, Gin, Jing, Kinh, Viet
  
French Name
persan
  
vietnamien
  
German Name
Persisch
  
Vietnamesisch
  
Pronunciation
[fɒːɾˈsiː]
  
[tĭəŋ vìəˀt] (Northern)
[tǐəŋ jìək] (Southern)
  
Ethnicity
Persian people
  
Vietnamese (Kinh) people
  
Origin
1500 BC
  
c. 1440
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Austroasiatic Family
  
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
  
Not Available
  
Branch
Iranian
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old Persian and Middle Persian
  
Pre-Vietnamese, Proto-Vietnamese, Archaic Vietnamese, Ancient Vietnamese, Middle Vietnamese, Modern Vietnamese
  
Standard Forms
Persian
  
Standard Vietnamese
  
Signed Forms
Persian Sign Language
  
Vietnamese sign languages
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
fa
  
vi
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
fas
  
vie
  
ISO 639 2/B
per
  
vie
  
ISO 639 3
pes
  
vie
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
fars1254
  
viet1252
  
Linguasphere
58-AAC-c
  
46-EBA
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
  
Analytic, Isolating