Countries
Countries
Barbados, Belize, Botswana, Cameroon, Canada, Dominica, Fiji, Ghana, India, Ireland, Jamaica, Kenya, Malta, Mauritius, Micronesia, Nigeria, Pakistan, Philippines, Rwanda, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Samoa, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Somaliland, South Africa, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, Trinidad and Tobago, Uganda, United Kingdom, Zambia, Zimbabwe
Afganistan, Iran, Tajikistan
Total No. Of Countries
333
0
46
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National Language
Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bermuda, Cayman Islands, Gibraltar, Grenada, Guam, Guyana, Jersey, Montserrat, Nauru, Singapore, Trinidad and Tobago, United Kingdom, United States of America
Afganistan, Azerbaijan, Iran, Iraq, Russia, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan
Second Language
India, Nigeria, Pakistan, Singapore
Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka
Speaking Continents
Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America, Oceania, South America
Asia
Minority Language
South Africa
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
- Most of the English words begin with the letter S than any other letter.
- English is third most commonly spoken language in the world.
- 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
Not Available
Pashto and Balochi Languages
Derived From
Latin
Arabic Language
Alphabets
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2632
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
56
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2123
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Arabic
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
76
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
6 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Greetings
Hello
Hello
سلام
Thank You
Thank you
متشکرم
How Are You?
How are you?
چطور هستید?
Good Night
Good Night
شب بخیر
Good Evening
Good Evening
عصر بخیر
Good Afternoon
Good Afternoon
بعد از ظهر بخیر
Good Morning
Good Morning
صبح به خیر
Please
Please
لطفا
Sorry
Sorry
متاسف
Bye
Bye
خدا حافظ
I Love You
I love you
من شما را دوست دارم
Excuse Me
Excuse Me
ببخشيد!
Dialects
Dialect 1
American English
Western Persian
Where They Speak
United States of America
Iran, Iraq
How Many People Speak
225,000,000.0047,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Hiberno-English
Dari Persian
Where They Speak
Republic of Ireland, United Kingdom
Afganistan
How Many People Speak
4,500,000.0012,500,000.00
700
80000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Welsh English
Tajik Persian
Where They Speak
United Kingdom
Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan
How Many People Speak
2,500,000.007,900,000.00
1400
96000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
18812
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak
How Many People Speak?
1,200.00 million65.00 million
0.13
1200
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Speaking Population
5.43 %0.99 %
0.11
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
400.00 million65.00 million
0.13
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
400.00 millionNA
0.01
400
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Native Name
English
فارسی
Alternative Names
Not Available
New Persian, Parsi, Persian, West Persian
French Name
anglais
persan
German Name
Englisch
Persisch
Pronunciation
/ˈɪŋɡlɪʃ/
[fɒːɾˈsiː]
Ethnicity
Not Available
Persian people
History
Origin
5th Century AD
1500 BC
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Not Available
Indo-Iranian
Branch
Not Available
Iranian
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old English, Middle English, Early Modern English and English
Old Persian and Middle Persian
Standard Forms
Standard English
Persian
Language Position
323
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed English
Persian Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
Code
ISO 639 1
en
fa
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
eng
fas
ISO 639 2/B
eng
per
ISO 639 3
eng
pes
ISO 639 6
engs
Not Available
Glottocode
stan1293
fars1254
Linguasphere
52-ABA
58-AAC-c
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Fusional, Isolating, Synthetic
Synthetic