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Countries

Afganistan, Iran, Tajikistan

Total No. Of Countries

Rank: 12 (Overall)

0 46

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National Language

Afganistan, Azerbaijan, Iran, Iraq, Russia, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan

Second Language

Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka

Speaking Continents

Asia

Minority Language

Bahrain, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates

Regulated By

Academy of Persian Language and Literature (فرهنگستان زبان و اد, Academy of Sciences of Afghanistan

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.

Similar To

Pashto and Balochi Languages

Derived From

Arabic Language

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

Rank: 14 (Overall)

18 247

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Phonology

How Many Vowels

Rank: 3 (Overall)

0 32

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How Many Consonants

Rank: 13 (Overall)

9 60

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Scripts

Arabic

Writing Direction

Right-To-Left, Horizontal

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

Rank: 5 (Overall)

2 12

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Time Taken to Learn

44 weeks

Rank: 17 (Overall)

3 88

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Greetings

Hello

سلام

Thank You

متشکرم

How Are You?

چطور هستید?

Good Night

شب بخیر

Good Evening

عصر بخیر

Good Afternoon

بعد از ظهر بخیر

Good Morning

صبح به خیر

Please

لطفا

Sorry

متاسف

Bye

خدا حافظ

I Love You

من شما را دوست دارم

Excuse Me

ببخشيد!

Dialects

Dialect 1

Western Persian

Where They Speak

Iran, Iraq

How Many People Speak

47,000,000.00

Rank: 15 (Overall)

1.5 960000000

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Dialect 2

Dari Persian

Where They Speak

Afganistan

How Many People Speak

12,500,000.00

Rank: 33 (Overall)

700 274000000

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Dialect 3

Tajik Persian

Where They Speak

Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan

How Many People Speak

7,900,000.00

Rank: 32 (Overall)

2 230000000

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Total No. Of Dialects

Rank: 12 (Overall)

0 188

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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

65.00 million

Rank: 26 (Overall)

0 1200

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Speaking Population

0.99 %

Rank: 21 (Overall)

0 89

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Native Speakers

65.00 million

Rank: 17 (Overall)

0 873

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Second Language Speakers

110.00 million

Rank: 7 (Overall)

0.01 400

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Native Name

فارسی

Alternative Names

New Persian, Parsi, Persian, West Persian

French Name

persan

German Name

Persisch

Pronunciation

[fɒːɾˈsiː]

Ethnicity

Persian people

History

Origin

1500 BC

Language Family

Indo-European Family

Subgroup

Indo-Iranian

Branch

Iranian

Language Forms

Early Forms

Old Persian and Middle Persian

Standard Forms

Persian

Language Position

Rank: 21 (Overall)

1 120

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Signed Forms

Persian Sign Language

Scope

Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

fas

ISO 639 2/B

per

ISO 639 3

pes

ISO 639 6

pers

Glottocode

fars1254

Linguasphere

58-AAC-c

Types of Language

Language Type

Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Object-Verb

Language Morphological Typology

Synthetic

Know Alphabets in Persian

When you start learning to write in any language the Alphabets form a skeleton of any language. Let's talk About Persian Language, where you will learn the number of letter in Persian Alphabets. Every language has its own set of alphabets or characters so it is necessary to know alphabets in Persian. Persian phonology gives Persian vowels and Persian consonants. There are 6 vowels and 23 consonants in Persian language. Based upon the number of alphabet, vowels and consonants in the language we can check if Persian is one of the Most Difficult Languages. All about Persian language is given in detail in this section.

All Persian countries

Want to explore all Persian countries? About Persian language serves you with all Persian Speaking Countries. Countries that use Persian as official language are called as Persian countries.

Countries that use Persian as their National Language are: Afganistan, Azerbaijan, Iran, Iraq, Russia, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan.

Second language indicates to any language which the person learns in addition to first or native language.

Countries that use Persian as second language are: Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka.

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Learn Persian greetings

Languages are used by every human being to communicate. And communication begins with the greetings. First step to form any interaction is to learn Persian Greetings. Whenever you are travelling to new country where in you don’t know the local language of that country then you should at least be familiar with some greetings to start any formal or informal conversion. When we talk about Persian language, we are always interested in learning useful phrases in Persian language.Learn Persian greetings that can be used in formal situations:

Hello: سلام
Thank you: متشکرم
Good Morning: صبح به خیر
Good Evening: عصر بخیر
Good Afternoon: بعد از ظهر بخیر

All Persian Language Codes

Get to know all Persian language codes here. There are several languages spoken all over the world where in most of the languages have alternate names which come from diverse sources. All Persian Language Codes are assigned with unique code. There is usually two or three letters code for each language. In most of the applications, these language codes are used where it is tedious to use language names.