Countries
Afganistan, Iran, Tajikistan
Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Switzerland
National Language
Afganistan, Azerbaijan, Iran, Iraq, Russia, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan
Germany
Second Language
Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka
North Dakota, United States of America
Speaking Continents
Asia
Europe
Minority Language
Bahrain, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates
Czech Republic, Denmark, Former Soviet Union, France, Hungary, Italy, Namibia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia
Regulated By
Academy of Persian Language and Literature (فرهنگستان زبان و اد, Academy of Sciences of Afghanistan
Council for German Orthography
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.
- One of the large group of Indo-Germanic languages is German.
- The second most popular Germanic language spoken today behind English is German language.
Similar To
Pashto and Balochi Languages
Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and English Languages
Derived From
Arabic Language
Albanian Languages
Alphabets in
Persian-Alphabets.jpg#200
German-Alphabets.jpg#200
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
How Are You?
چطور هستید?
Wie geht es dir?
Good Night
شب بخیر
gute Nacht
Good Evening
عصر بخیر
guten Abend
Good Afternoon
بعد از ظهر بخیر
guten Tag
Good Morning
صبح به خیر
guten Morgen
I Love You
من شما را دوست دارم
Ich liebe dich
Excuse Me
ببخشيد!
Entschuldigung
Dialect 1
Western Persian
Swiss German
Where They Speak
Iran, Iraq
Switzerland
Dialect 2
Dari Persian
Swabian German
Where They Speak
Afganistan
Germany
Dialect 3
Tajik Persian
Texas German
Where They Speak
Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan
Texas
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
Native Name
فارسی
Deutsch
Alternative Names
New Persian, Parsi, Persian, West Persian
Deutsch, Tedesco
French Name
persan
allemand
German Name
Persisch
Deutsch
Pronunciation
[fɒːɾˈsiː]
[ˈdɔʏtʃ]
Ethnicity
Persian people
Germans
Origin
1500 BC
6th Century AD
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Germanic
Early Forms
Old Persian and Middle Persian
No early forms
Standard Forms
Persian
German Standard German, Swiss Standard German and Austrian Standard German
Signed Forms
Persian Sign Language
Signed German
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 6
Not Available
deus
Glottocode
fars1254
high1287, uppe1397
Linguasphere
58-AAC-c
52-ACB–dl & -dm
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Object-Verb, Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
Fusional, Synthetic
Persian and German 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 German greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Persian and German language. Persian word for "Hello" is سلام or German word for "Thank You" is Danke. Find more of such common Persian Greetings and German Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Persian vs German Difficulty
The Persian vs German difficulty level basically depends on the number of Persian Alphabets and German 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 German are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Persian and German, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Persian is 44 weeks while to learn German time required is 30 weeks.