Countries
Afganistan, Iran, Tajikistan
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
National Language
Afganistan, Azerbaijan, Iran, Iraq, Russia, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan
China, Taiwan
Second Language
Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka
Republic of Brazil
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Bahrain, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates
Indonesia, Malaysia
Regulated By
Academy of Persian Language and Literature (فرهنگستان زبان و اد, Academy of Sciences of Afghanistan
Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin Council
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.
- Chinese language is tonal, since meaning of a word changes according to its tone.
- In Chinese language, there is no grammatical distinction between singular or plural, no declination of verbs according to tense, mood and aspect.
Similar To
Pashto and Balochi Languages
Not Available
Derived From
Arabic Language
Not Available
Alphabets in
Persian-Alphabets.jpg#200
Chinese.jpg#200
Scripts
Arabic
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Thank You
متشکرم
谢谢 (Xièxiè)
How Are You?
چطور هستید?
你好吗？ (Nǐ hǎo ma?)
Good Night
شب بخیر
晚安 (Wǎn'ān)
Good Evening
عصر بخیر
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
Good Afternoon
بعد از ظهر بخیر
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)
Good Morning
صبح به خیر
早安 (Zǎo ān)
Bye
خدا حافظ
再见 (Zàijiàn)
I Love You
من شما را دوست دارم
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)
Excuse Me
ببخشيد!
劳驾 (Láojià)
Dialect 1
Western Persian
Mandarin
Where They Speak
Iran, Iraq
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
Dialect 2
Dari Persian
Wu
Where They Speak
Afganistan
China, United States of America
Dialect 3
Tajik Persian
Yue
Where They Speak
Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
Native Name
فارسی
中文 (zhōngwén)
Alternative Names
New Persian, Parsi, Persian, West Persian
Not Available
French Name
persan
chinois
German Name
Persisch
Chinesisch
Pronunciation
[fɒːɾˈsiː]
Not Available
Ethnicity
Persian people
Han
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Not Available
Branch
Iranian
Not Available
Early Forms
Old Persian and Middle Persian
No early forms
Standard Forms
Persian
Standard Chinese
Signed Forms
Persian Sign Language
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
Glottocode
fars1254
sini1245
Linguasphere
58-AAC-c
79-AAA
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
Analytic, Isolating
Persian and Chinese Greetings
People around the world use different languages to interact with each other. Even if we cannot communicate fluently in any language, it will always be beneficial to know about some of the common greetings or phrases from that language. This is where Persian and Chinese greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Persian and Chinese language. Persian word for "Hello" is سلام or Chinese word for "Thank You" is 谢谢 (Xièxiè). Find more of such common Persian Greetings and Chinese Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Persian vs Chinese Difficulty
The Persian vs Chinese difficulty level basically depends on the number of Persian Alphabets and Chinese Alphabets. Also the number of vowels and consonants in the language plays an important role in deciding the difficulty level of that language. The important points to be considered when we compare Persian and Chinese are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Persian and Chinese, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Persian is 44 weeks while to learn Chinese time required is 88 weeks.