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Countries

Countries
Afganistan, Iran, Tajikistan

Total No. Of Countries
3 12

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
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Alphabets
32 14

Phonology

How Many Vowels
6 3

How Many Consonants
23 13

Scripts
Arabic

Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal

Hard to Learn

Language Levels
6 5

Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks 17

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 15

Dialect 2
Dari Persian

Where They Speak
Afganistan

How Many People Speak
12,500,000.00 33

Dialect 3
Tajik Persian

Where They Speak
Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan

How Many People Speak
7,900,000.00 32

Total No. Of Dialects
12 12

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
65.00 million 26

Speaking Population
0.99 % 21

Native Speakers
65.00 million 17

Second Language Speakers
110.00 million 7

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
23 21

Signed Forms
Persian Sign Language

Scope
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1
fa

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

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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.

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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.

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