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Countries

Countries

Basque Autonomous Community, Navarre
Afganistan, Iran, Tajikistan

Total No. Of Countries

23
0 46
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National Language

France, Spain
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

Asia, Europe
Asia

Minority Language

Not spoken in any of the countries
Bahrain, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates

Regulated By

Euskaltzaindia, National Languages Committee
Academy of Persian Language and Literature (فرهنگستان زبان و اد, Academy of Sciences of Afghanistan

Interesting Facts

  • The Basque language is the oldest European language.
  • Basque alphabet include many Roman letters.
  • 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

Spanish
Pashto and Balochi Languages

Derived From

-
Arabic Language

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

2732
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

56
0 32
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How Many Consonants

2123
9 60
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Scripts

Latin
Arabic

Writing Direction

-
Right-To-Left, Horizontal

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

36
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

88 weeks44 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

Kaixo
سلام

Thank You

Eskerrik asko
متشکرم

How Are You?

Zer moduz?
چطور هستید?

Good Night

Gabon
شب بخیر

Good Evening

Arratsalde on
عصر بخیر

Good Afternoon

Arratsalde on
بعد از ظهر بخیر

Good Morning

Egun on
صبح به خیر

Please

Mesedez
لطفا

Sorry

Barkatu
متاسف

Bye

Agur
خدا حافظ

I Love You

Maite zaitut
من شما را دوست دارم

Excuse Me

Barkatu
ببخشيد!

Dialects

Dialect 1

Navarro-Lapurdian
Western Persian

Where They Speak

France
Iran, Iraq

How Many People Speak

68,000.0047,000,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Souletin
Dari Persian

Where They Speak

France, Soule, Spain
Afganistan

How Many People Speak

8,700.0012,500,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Biscayan
Tajik Persian

Where They Speak

Spain
Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan

How Many People Speak

750,000.007,900,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

612
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

7.20 million65.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.12 %0.99 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

7.20 million65.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

0.70 million110.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

Euskara
فارسی

Alternative Names

Euskara, Euskera, Vascuense
New Persian, Parsi, Persian, West Persian

French Name

basque
persan

German Name

Baskisch
Persisch

Pronunciation

[bɑːsk]
[fɒːɾˈsiː]

Ethnicity

Basque people
Persian people

History

Origin

c. 1000
1500 BC

Language Family

Vasconic Family
Indo-European Family

Subgroup

-
Indo-Iranian

Branch

-
Iranian

Language Forms

Early Forms

Proto-Basque, Aquitanian
Old Persian and Middle Persian

Standard Forms

Basque
Persian

Language Position

3023
1 120
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Signed Forms

Basque Sign Language
Persian Sign Language

Scope

-
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

eu
fa

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

eus
fas

ISO 639 2/B

baq
per

ISO 639 3

eus
pes

ISO 639 6

eus
pers

Glottocode

basq1248
fars1254

Linguasphere

40-AAA-a
58-AAC-c

Types of Language

Language Type

-
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Object-Verb

Language Morphological Typology

Agglutinative
Synthetic

Basque and Persian Alphabets

Basque and Persian Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Basque and Persian. In Basque Alphabets there are 27 letters while in Persian Alphabets there are 32 letters. To learn Basque and Persian languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Basque and Persian languages. The Basque phonology consist Basque vowels and Basque consonants. After alphabets, words are to be learned and after words, phrases in that language. Take a look at Basque greetings vs Persian greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Basque and Persian are Most Spoken Languages.

All Basque and Persian Dialects

Most languages have dialects where each dialect differ from other dialect with respect to grammar and vocabulary. Here you will get to know all Basque and Persian dialects. Various dialects of Basque and Persian language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Basque are spoken in different Basque Speaking Countries whereas Persian Dialects are spoken in different Persian speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Basque vs Persian Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Basque dialects include: Navarro-Lapurdian, Souletin. Persian dialects include: Western Persian , Dari Persian. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

Basque and Persian Speaking population

Basque and Persian speaking population is one of the factors based on which Basque and Persian languages can be compared. The total count of Basque and Persian Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Basque language is 0.12 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Persian language is 0.99 %. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak Basque and Persian on Basque vs Persian where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Basque and Persian Language Codes

Basque and Persian language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Basque and Persian Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.