Countries
Turkey, Uzbekistan
  
Afganistan, Iran, Tajikistan
  
National Language
Afganistan, China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan
  
Afganistan, Azerbaijan, Iran, Iraq, Russia, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka
  
Speaking Continents
Middle East
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Bahrain, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates
  
Regulated By
Not Available
  
Academy of Persian Language and Literature (فرهنگستان زبان و اد, Academy of Sciences of Afghanistan
  
Interesting Facts
- Uzbek is officially written in the Latin script, but many people still use Cyrillic script.
- In Uzbek language, there are many loanwords from Russian, Arabic and Persian.
  
- 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.
  
Similar To
Kazakh and Uyghur Languages
  
Pashto and Balochi Languages
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Arabic Language
  
Alphabets in
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Persian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Arabic, Cyrillic, Latin
  
Arabic
  
Writing Direction
Not Available
  
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Salom
  
سلام
  
Thank You
Rakhmat
  
متشکرم
  
How Are You?
Qalay siz?
  
چطور هستید?
  
Good Night
Hayirli tun
  
شب بخیر
  
Good Evening
Hayirli kech
  
عصر بخیر
  
Good Afternoon
Hayirli kun
  
بعد از ظهر بخیر
  
Good Morning
Hayirli tong
  
صبح به خیر
  
Please
Iltimos
  
لطفا
  
Sorry
Kechiring!
  
متاسف
  
Bye
Xayr
  
خدا حافظ
  
I Love You
Sizni sevaman
  
من شما را دوست دارم
  
Excuse Me
Iltimos! Menga qarang
  
ببخشيد!
  
Dialect 1
Tashkent
  
Western Persian
  
Where They Speak
Not Available
  
Iran, Iraq
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
47,000,000.00
  
7
Dialect 2
Afghan
  
Dari Persian
  
Where They Speak
Not Available
  
Afganistan
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
12,500,000.00
  
7
Dialect 3
Ferghana
  
Tajik Persian
  
Where They Speak
Not Available
  
Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
7,900,000.00
  
6
How Many People Speak?
25.00 million
  
40
65.00 million
  
26
Native Speakers
26.00 million
  
31
65.00 million
  
17
Native Name
أۇزبېك ﺗﻴﻠی o'zbek tili ўзбек тили (o‘zbek tili)
  
فارسی
  
Alternative Names
Annamese, Ching, Gin, Jing, Kinh, Viet
  
New Persian, Parsi, Persian, West Persian
  
French Name
ouszbek
  
persan
  
German Name
Usbekisch
  
Persisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
[fɒːɾˈsiː]
  
Ethnicity
Uzbek
  
Persian people
  
Origin
9th–12th centuries AD
  
1500 BC
  
Language Family
Turkic Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Turkic
  
Indo-Iranian
  
Branch
Southestern(Chagatai)
  
Iranian
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Chagatay
  
Old Persian and Middle Persian
  
Standard Forms
Uzbek
  
Persian
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Persian Sign Language
  
Scope
Macrolanguage
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
uz
  
fa
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
uzb
  
fas
  
ISO 639 2/B
uzb
  
per
  
ISO 639 3
uzb
  
pes
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
uzbe1247
  
fars1254
  
Linguasphere
No data available
  
58-AAC-c
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Synthetic
  
Uzbek and Persian 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 Uzbek and Persian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Uzbek and Persian language. Uzbek word for "Hello" is Salom or Persian word for "Thank You" is متشکرم. Find more of such common Uzbek Greetings and Persian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Uzbek vs Persian Difficulty
The Uzbek vs Persian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Uzbek Alphabets and Persian 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 Uzbek and Persian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Uzbek and Persian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Uzbek is 44 weeks while to learn Persian time required is 44 weeks.