1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Afganistan, Iran, Tajikistan
Afganistan, Iran, Oman, Pakistan
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
Afganistan, Azerbaijan, Iran, Iraq, Russia, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan
Iran
1.4 Second Language
Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
Bahrain, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates
India, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, United Arab Emirates
1.7 Regulated By
Academy of Persian Language and Literature (فرهنگستان زبان و اد, Academy of Sciences of Afghanistan
Balochi Academy, National Languages Committee
1.8 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.
- Balochi language had no written form before the early 19th century. The official language used until that time was Persian.
- Balochi has borrowed words from Persian, Arabic, Sindhi, and other languages.
1.9 Similar To
Pashto and Balochi Languages
Kurdish and Persian
1.10 Derived From
Arabic Language
Ancient Indo-Iranian Language
2 Alphabets
2.1 Alphabets in
2.2 Alphabets
2.3 Phonology
2.3.1 How Many Vowels
2.3.2 How Many Consonants
2.4 Scripts
Arabic
Perso-Arabic script
2.5 Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Not Available
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
3.2 Thank You
3.3 How Are You?
3.4 Good Night
3.5 Good Evening
3.6 Good Afternoon
بعد از ظهر بخیر
Not Available
3.7 Good Morning
3.8 Please
3.9 Sorry
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
من شما را دوست دارم
Tu mana doost biyeh
3.12 Excuse Me
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Western Persian
Eastern Balochi
4.1.1 Where They Speak
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
47,000,000.005,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
Dari Persian
Western Balochi
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Afganistan
Afganistan, Iran, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
12,500,000.001,800,000.00
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
Tajik Persian
Southern Balochi
4.3.1 Where They Speak
Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan
Iran, Oman, Pakistan, United Arab Emirates
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
7,900,000.003,400,000.00
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
65.00 million7.60 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
65.00 million7.60 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.3.2 Native Name
5.3.3 Alternative Names
New Persian, Parsi, Persian, West Persian
Baluchi
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
5.5 Ethnicity
Persian people
Predominantly Baloch, some Brahui
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Not Available
6.2.2 Branch
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
Old Persian and Middle Persian
No early forms
6.3.2 Standard Forms
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Persian Sign Language
Not Available
6.4 Scope
7 Code
7.1 ISO 639 1
7.2 ISO 639 2
7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
7.3 ISO 639 3
7.4 ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
7.5 Glottocode
7.6 Linguasphere
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Not Available
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology