Countries
Afganistan, Iran, Tajikistan
  
Brunei, Malaysia, Singapore
  
National Language
Afganistan, Azerbaijan, Iran, Iraq, Russia, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan
  
Malaysia
  
Second Language
Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka
  
Indonesia
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Bahrain, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates
  
Thailand
  
Regulated By
Academy of Persian Language and Literature (فرهنگستان زبان و اد, Academy of Sciences of Afghanistan
  
Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka
  
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 most politically powerful language historically is Malaysian Language.
- Malaysian earliest known inscriptions were found in South of Sumatra way back in 683-6 AD.
  
Similar To
Pashto and Balochi Languages
  
Indonesian Language
  
Derived From
Arabic Language
  
Tamil Language
  
Alphabets in
Persian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Malaysian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Arabic
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
سلام
  
Hai
  
Thank You
متشکرم
  
terima kasih
  
How Are You?
چطور هستید?
  
Apa khabar?
  
Good Night
شب بخیر
  
Selamat Malam
  
Good Evening
عصر بخیر
  
Selamat Petang
  
Good Afternoon
بعد از ظهر بخیر
  
Selamat tengah hari
  
Good Morning
صبح به خیر
  
Selamat pagi
  
Please
لطفا
  
sila
  
Sorry
متاسف
  
maaf
  
Bye
خدا حافظ
  
Selamat tinggal
  
I Love You
من شما را دوست دارم
  
Saya sayang kamu
  
Excuse Me
ببخشيد!
  
Maafkan saya
  
Dialect 1
Western Persian
  
Bengkulu
  
Where They Speak
Iran, Iraq
  
Bengkulu Province, Sumatra
  
How Many People Speak
47,000,000.00
  
7
1,600,000.00
  
25
Dialect 2
Dari Persian
  
Pekal
  
Where They Speak
Afganistan
  
Indonesia
  
How Many People Speak
12,500,000.00
  
7
Dialect 3
Tajik Persian
  
Musi
  
Where They Speak
Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan
  
Indonesia
  
How Many People Speak
7,900,000.00
  
6
3,100,000.00
  
11
How Many People Speak?
65.00 million
  
26
175.00 million
  
10
Native Speakers
65.00 million
  
17
77.00 million
  
12
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
98.00 million
  
8
Native Name
فارسی
  
Bahasa melayu
  
Alternative Names
New Persian, Parsi, Persian, West Persian
  
Not Available
  
French Name
persan
  
malais
  
German Name
Persisch
  
Malaiisch
  
Pronunciation
[fɒːɾˈsiː]
  
[baˈhasə malajˈsiə]
  
Ethnicity
Persian people
  
Not Available
  
Origin
1500 BC
  
c. 683 AD
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Austronesian Family
  
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
  
Not Available
  
Branch
Iranian
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old Persian and Middle Persian
  
Ancient Malay, Old Malay, Pre-Modern MalayClassical Malay,
  
Standard Forms
Persian
  
Pluricentric Standard Malay
  
Signed Forms
Persian Sign Language
  
Malaysian Sign Language
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
fa
  
ms
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
fas
  
msa
  
ISO 639 2/B
per
  
may
  
ISO 639 3
pes
  
zsm
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
fars1254
  
stan1306
  
Linguasphere
58-AAC-c
  
No data available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
  
Agglutinative
  
Persian and Malaysian 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 Malaysian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Persian and Malaysian language. Persian word for "Hello" is سلام or Malaysian word for "Thank You" is terima kasih. Find more of such common Persian Greetings and Malaysian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Persian vs Malaysian Difficulty
The Persian vs Malaysian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Persian Alphabets and Malaysian 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 Malaysian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Persian and Malaysian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Persian is 44 weeks while to learn Malaysian time required is 36 weeks.