Countries
Afganistan, Iran, Tajikistan
  
Estonia, European Union
  
National Language
Afganistan, Azerbaijan, Iran, Iraq, Russia, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan
  
Estonia, Gambia
  
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
  
Denmark, Russia, Sweden
  
Regulated By
Academy of Persian Language and Literature (فرهنگستان زبان و اد, Academy of Sciences of Afghanistan
  
Institute of the Estonian 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.
  
- Estonian language is considered to be powerful symbol of Estonian identity and culture.
- Estonian language has adopted many words with Finnish language.
  
Similar To
Pashto and Balochi Languages
  
Finnish
  
Derived From
Arabic Language
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
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Estonian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Arabic
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
سلام
  
Tere
  
Thank You
متشکرم
  
aitäh
  
How Are You?
چطور هستید?
  
kuidas sul läheb
  
Good Night
شب بخیر
  
Head ööd
  
Good Evening
عصر بخیر
  
Tere õhtust
  
Good Afternoon
بعد از ظهر بخیر
  
Tere päevast
  
Good Morning
صبح به خیر
  
Tere hommikust
  
Please
لطفا
  
Palun
  
Sorry
متاسف
  
Vabandust
  
Bye
خدا حافظ
  
Head aega
  
I Love You
من شما را دوست دارم
  
ma armastan sind
  
Excuse Me
ببخشيد!
  
Vabandage
  
Dialect 1
Western Persian
  
Keskmurre
  
Where They Speak
Iran, Iraq
  
Gabon, Northeastern coast of Estonia
  
How Many People Speak
47,000,000.00
  
7
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Dari Persian
  
Tartu
  
Where They Speak
Afganistan
  
Georgia, South Estonia
  
How Many People Speak
12,500,000.00
  
7
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Tajik Persian
  
Idamurre
  
Where They Speak
Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan
  
France, Northwestern shore of Lake Peipsi.
  
How Many People Speak
7,900,000.00
  
6
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
65.00 million
  
26
1.10 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
65.00 million
  
17
0.95 million
  
99+
Native Name
فارسی
  
eesti keel
  
Alternative Names
New Persian, Parsi, Persian, West Persian
  
Eesti keel
  
French Name
persan
  
estonien
  
German Name
Persisch
  
Estnisch
  
Pronunciation
[fɒːɾˈsiː]
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Persian people
  
Estonians
  
Origin
1500 BC
  
13th century
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Uralic Family
  
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
  
Finno-Ugric
  
Branch
Iranian
  
Finnic
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old Persian and Middle Persian
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Persian
  
Estonian
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Persian Sign Language
  
Estonian Sign Language
  
Scope
Individual
  
Macrolanguage
  
ISO 639 1
fa
  
et
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
fas
  
est
  
ISO 639 2/B
per
  
est
  
ISO 639 3
pes
  
est
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
fars1254
  
esto1258
  
Linguasphere
58-AAC-c
  
No data available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
  
Agglutinative
  
Persian and Estonian 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 Estonian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Persian and Estonian language. Persian word for "Hello" is سلام or Estonian word for "Thank You" is aitäh. Find more of such common Persian Greetings and Estonian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Persian vs Estonian Difficulty
The Persian vs Estonian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Persian Alphabets and Estonian 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 Estonian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Persian and Estonian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Persian is 44 weeks while to learn Estonian time required is 44 weeks.